You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
TOM FORDEveryday is one less day.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
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I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
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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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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
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I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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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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Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
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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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You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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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 probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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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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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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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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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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