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.
TOM FORDI am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
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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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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Everyday is one less day.
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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
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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.
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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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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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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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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 a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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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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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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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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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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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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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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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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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 probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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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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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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