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" I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner. "
Tom Ford
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" The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that. "
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" Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have. "
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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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" When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. "
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" It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it. "
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" I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it. "
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" I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life. "
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" You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it's been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that's what's so strange. "
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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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" I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it. "
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" We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy. "
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" The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar. "
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" This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it. "
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" Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? 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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" 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 don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet! "
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" I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie. "
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" I don't want to find myself designing for the press. "
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" Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection. "
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" We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator? "
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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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" 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 monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us. "
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" I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today. "
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" I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field. "
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" When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her; she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them. "
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" I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me. "
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" Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially. "
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" You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish. "
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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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