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.
TOM FORDI 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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It’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.
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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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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.
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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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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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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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