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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
Shampoo
Elbows
Kept
Spending
Would
Thinking
Life

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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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Hair is another name for sex.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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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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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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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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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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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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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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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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If you look good, we look good.
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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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I was a bit of a rebel.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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