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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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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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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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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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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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When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.
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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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You must always do what you feel is right.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
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Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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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 hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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