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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

Vidal Sassoon

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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
England
Always
Thoughts
Hair
Inspiration
Work

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When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
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So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.
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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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