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I am great at delegating when someone is doing great work. The problem - and this sounds terrible - is that there are very few people who are strong enough for you to be able to delegate to.

Tom Ford

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Tom Ford
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 27
Fashion Designer
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Austin
Texas
Thomas Carlyle Ford
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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 enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.
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It's hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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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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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.
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To me, beauty and sadness are very closely linked. Truly beautiful things make me sad because I know they are going to fade. When I see a beautiful 20-year-old boy or girl-and they are breathtaking-I am filled with a kind of sadness. But maybe they are beautiful because we know they are not permanent and they are in a kind of transition.
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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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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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If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.
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A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that.
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