Hugh Hefner
Publisher
1926-04-09
Quotes by Hugh Hefner
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The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
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Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
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Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
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Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.
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The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.
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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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I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
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I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.
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Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.
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To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent.
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When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.
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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'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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