Vidal Sassoon Quotes

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Vidal Sassoon

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 17, 1928

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

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

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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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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

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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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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

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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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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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My greatest regret is selling my company.

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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

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

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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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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

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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'm a great jazz fan.

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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

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