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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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
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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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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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 left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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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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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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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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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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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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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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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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