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Granddad offered me one hundred dollars if I would cut my mop of curly hair into a neat military style. Just before the wedding, I got a light trim. It wasn't enough for Granddad, and he didn't pay.

— David Eisenhower

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

— Alexa Chung

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

— Chili Davis

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.

— Vidal Sassoon

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.

— Chris Rock

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.

— Betty Who

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.

— Ne-Yo

✗Opposing Perspectives

I had the most expensive haircut you can get, and I was walking around with my hair in rollers backstage, and my hair still came out looking like I was shot out of a cannon and I had just gotten out of bed.

— Kelly Cutrone

When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

— M.I.A.

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.

— Richie Benaud

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

— Rose Leslie