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.
TOM FORDI 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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Everyday is one less day.
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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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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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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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I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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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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