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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

Vidal Sassoon

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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
Autobiographer
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Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
England
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Mother
Good
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Hairdressing
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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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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.
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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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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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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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If you look good, we look good.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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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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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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