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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

Vidal Sassoon

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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
England
Life
Shampoo
Elbows
Kept
Spending
Would
Thinking

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For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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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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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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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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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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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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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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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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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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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