Vidal Sassoon Quotes

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
Vidal Sassoon

Sense, Purpose, Compromise

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

Mother, Feeling, Her

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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Hard, Give, Advice

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

Important, Point, View

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
Vidal Sassoon

Fashion, Favourite, Designer

My greatest regret is selling my company.
Vidal Sassoon

Greatest, Regret, Company

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

Good, Mother, She

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
Vidal Sassoon

Mother, Left, Seven

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

Again, Movie, Watch

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

Nice, Thought, Pretty

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
Vidal Sassoon

Important, Hair, Means

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

Father, Away, Less

You must always do what you feel is right.
Vidal Sassoon

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

Mother, Win, Argued

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.
Vidal Sassoon

Change, Art, Done

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Vidal Sassoon

Equality, Happy, Justice

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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Home, Mother, Heart

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.
Vidal Sassoon

Beautiful, Wonderful, Face

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.
Vidal Sassoon

Society, Sure, Toward

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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Education, Thought, Question

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.
Vidal Sassoon

Woman, Perfect, Learned

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: January 17, 1928

Died: May 9, 2012

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