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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.
Vidal Sassoon
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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
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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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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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Hair is another name for sex.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
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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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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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