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.
TOM FORDFrom the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
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I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
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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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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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The Gucci woman – you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman – she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
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I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.
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I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
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In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
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As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
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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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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
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I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
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I don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
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France? I don’t want to be anti-French but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
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