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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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Inspirational, Important, Stuff

"Excellence: Inspiration for Achieving Your Personal Best". Book by J.Pincott, 2010.

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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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Pride, Vanity, Different

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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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Believe, Mean, Want

"Tom Ford's Tender First Film, A Single Man". Interview with Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. December 11, 2009.

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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.

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People, Want, Dinner

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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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Honesty, Adults, Ends

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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

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Goal, Helping, Versions

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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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Dog, Successful, Paris

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It's hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.

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Sexy, High Heels, Pairs

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I don't wear a lot of color. In fact, I don't actually like color on myself. I love color but it's very challenging, it's very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don't feel great in color.

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Powerful, Eye, Thinking

"Tom Ford: From Fashion To Film With 'A Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 14, 2009.

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The Gucci woman - you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman - she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.

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Sex, Hot, Saint

"Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.

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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.

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Gentleman, Passionate, World

"Tom Ford's five easy lessons in how to be a modern gentleman" by Jefferson Hack, www.anothermag.com. March 18, 2011.

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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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Fashion, Artist, Creating

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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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Able, Single Man, Worthwhile

"Fictional character: George". "A Single Man", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

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Spiritual, Mean, World

"Tom Ford Unzipped: Interview Transcript". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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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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Fashion, Real, Tired

Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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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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Men, Feet, Knowing

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British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.

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Mean, Men, Clothes

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Dressing well is an expression of manners.

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Expression, Dressing Well, Manners

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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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Fun, Believe, Clothes

"Tom Ford's Home on the Range". Interview with Lisa Eisner, www.gq.com.au. January 25, 2012.

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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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Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

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Motivational, Beautiful, Struggle

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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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People

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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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People, Guy, Use

"The man with the golden touch" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.

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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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Home, Style, Fruit

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I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.

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Beautiful, Men, Clothes

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"I think that something that people in general forget to do - and it's true, not everyone has the financial means to do this - whatever clothes you buy if you really want them to fit well, you need to have them altered or tailored. And whether you're doing that yourself, whether you're taking it to your drycleaner that has a tailor, you need to alter and tailor everything, whether it's expensive, whether it's, you know, whether it's inexpensive. If you want it to really fit your body, even the best clothes have to be tailored."

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Born: August 27, 1961
Occupation: Fashion designer
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