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" Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever. "
Tom Ford
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Ever
Silliest
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" 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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Say
Want
" 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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Thought
City
" I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do. "
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Stand
I Am
" My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves. "
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Help
Style
Goal
" If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative. "
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Water
Hot
Lie
" Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion. "
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Same
Fashion
New
" From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important. "
Tom Ford
Stuff
Time
Born
" In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up. "
Tom Ford
Hair
Love
Seventies
" The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love. "
Tom Ford
Soft
Beauty
I Love
" I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things. "
Tom Ford
Culture
American
America
" I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot. "
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Less
Soon
Lot
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Advertising
Design
Important
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Home
School
Great
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Team
Think
You
" I don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them. "
Tom Ford
Reach
Clothes
Time
" Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life. "
Tom Ford
Life
Time
Focus
" 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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Life
Thought
My Life
" I don't want to find myself designing for the press. "
Tom Ford
Press
Find
Myself
" Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth. "
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Earth
Important
People
" I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it. "
Tom Ford
You
Calm
Living
" There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them. "
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Work
Great
Day
" Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially. "
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Students
Great
Changes
" Beyonce in real life is actually quite quiet and very sweet. "
Tom Ford
Quiet
Life
Sweet
" 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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Ego
Dress
I Am
" 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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Men
Suits
Look
" Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature. "
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Known
Beauty
Certain
" 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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Your
Destiny
Fate
" The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos. "
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Might
Only
Place
" 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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Mirror
Eyes
Man
" 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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Believe
Living
You