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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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You must always do what you feel is right.
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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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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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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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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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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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I'm a great jazz fan.
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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 was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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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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Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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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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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.
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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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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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