Vidal Sassoon Quotes

• You never argued with my mother. You couldn’t win.

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• You must always do what you feel is right.

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  Tags in Feel, Right

• 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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• 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

• 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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  Topics in Father

• We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

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  Tags in Learned, Woman

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

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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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  Tags in Pretty, Pretty Women

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

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

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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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  Topics in Education, Opportunity

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

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

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• My greatest regret is selling my company.

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  Tags in Selling

• 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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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in People, Excellent, Beautiful

• Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

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  Tags in Fashion, Favourite

• Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be ‘somebody’ so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

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  Tags in Important, Like

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

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

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  Tags in Feel, Sorry

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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