#mo

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. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#because #ghetto #good #i #important

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

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#everything #football #i #morality #obligations

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

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#born #depression #i #i was born #mount

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

— Vidal Sassoon

#her #i #idea #intelligence #mother

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 #bone #cover #create #curtains

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

— Vidal Sassoon

#good #had #hairdressing #me #mother

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

— Vidal Sassoon

#me #mother #orphanage #seven #years