Hugh Hefner Quotes

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Hugh Hefner

Profession : Publisher

Birth : April 9, 1926

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

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It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

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Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

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In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

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My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

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I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

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Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round.

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Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

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People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

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The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

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I'm actually a very moral guy.

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I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.

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In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

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The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

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My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

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It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation.

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I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

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I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

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When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a sophisticated men's magazine.

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Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

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