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I was a bit of a rebel.

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
Rebel
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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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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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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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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Hair is another name for sex.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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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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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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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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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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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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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.
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Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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