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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
Style
Purpose
Sense

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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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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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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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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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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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