On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
TOM FORDOnly hire people you want to have dinner with.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
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I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.
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If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”
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People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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What’s so wrong with vanity? It’s different from narcissism, you know? It’s not about admiring yourself-it’s about taking pride in your appearance.
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I think people are sick of trends changing every six months – not because we’re tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
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I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
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It’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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