Christie Hefner Quotes

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Christie Hefner

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : November 8, 1952

I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.

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Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.

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What's funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.

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I'm among the many Chicagoans who love to take advantage of the opportunity to dine outdoors in the summer months.

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I'm private because I want to be private.

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It's difficult sometimes to, in effect, let go of how you're used to doing things and give the brand room to be reinvented.

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With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.

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I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

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From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

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I never thought I was going to go to work for my father's company.

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But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

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I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

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I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

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It's so deeply disturbing to me that half of the eligible voters don't vote in this country. We talk about how divided the country is. The truth is, we don't even know. We just know what the half that voted thought.

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I expected to go into journalism or law.

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Playboy's all about why it's worth working so hard.

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I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.

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To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.

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