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Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but Im going to be the one guy who kept his word.

John Paul DeJoria

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John Paul DeJoria
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 13
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Echo Park
Los Angeles
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