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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. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#being #better #breed #eye #feel

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

— Vidal Sassoon

#craft #deserves #enough #enough people #general

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

#eyes #feel #front #hair #i

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.' ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#before #bruise #client #difficult #face

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

— Vidal Sassoon

#judaism #me #point #point of view #tribal

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#fashion #fashion designer #favourite #mary

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

#art form #been #before #change #color

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

#consist #doing #duties #endeavoring #equality

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

— Vidal Sassoon

#humanism #point #point of view #said #secular

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. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#attack #back #cash #come #earn