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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.

Vidal Sassoon

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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
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Hair is another name for sex.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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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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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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Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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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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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
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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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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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