Vidal Sassoon Quotes

• 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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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Women

• It’s okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Sorry

• 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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  Topics in Education, Opportunity

• ‘The Pianist’ is a movie I could watch over and over again.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Movie

• The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Essence

• 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.’

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretty, Pretty Women

• 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.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hair

• 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.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Father

• 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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  Topics in Power, Work

  Tags in Women

• You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Benefit

• I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Knew, Profession

• If you don’t look good, we don’t look good.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Look, Good

• Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fashion, Favourite

• My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

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  Topics in Mother

• From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism

• My greatest regret is selling my company.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Selling

• Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Judaism

• Hairdressing in general hasn’t been given the kudos it deserves. It’s not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Hair, Haircut

• Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Traveller

• To me hair dressing means shape. It’s very important that the foundations should be right.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Hair

Vidal Sassoon (46)

Birth:	17th January, 1928
Death:	9th May, 2012
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Hairdresser, Businessman

About

Vidal Sassoon was a British hairdresser, credited with creating a simple geometric, "Bauhaus-inspired" hair style, also called the wedge bob. Due to the popularity of his styles, he was described as "a rock star, an artist, a craftsman who 'changed the world with a pair of scissors.'"

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