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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
Thoughts
Hair
Inspiration
Work
Always

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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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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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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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If you look good, we look good.
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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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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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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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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
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Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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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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A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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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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Hair is another name for sex.
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To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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