Vidal Sassoon Quotes
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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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Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.
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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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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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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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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.
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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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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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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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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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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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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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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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Hair is another name for sex.
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Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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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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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.
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A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.
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If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. 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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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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