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" I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football. "
Tom Ford
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Baseball
Football
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" I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner. "
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" I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't. "
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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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" Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. "
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" Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially. "
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" I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so. "
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" I think that they haven't been able to perfect a good facelift for a man. "
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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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Lost
" When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.' "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great. "
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Hair
" Beyonce in real life is actually quite quiet and very sweet. "
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" The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go. "
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Eyes
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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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" 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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People
Just Do It
" I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied. "
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School
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" I don't want to find myself designing for the press. "
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" There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible. "
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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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" 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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" College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. "
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" September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. "
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" British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level. "
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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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" I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me. "
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" Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual. "
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" Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give. "
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