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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.
Vidal Sassoon
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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
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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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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 mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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If you look good, we look good.
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