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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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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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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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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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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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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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Hair is another name for sex.
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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 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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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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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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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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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
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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 mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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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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You must always do what you feel is right.
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