Hugh Hefner quotes - page 2

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. (Hugh Hefner)
I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
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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 business end of business has never interested me.
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I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
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Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.
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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 always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
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My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.
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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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The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. (Hugh Hefner)
I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.
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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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My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
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You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
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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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I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
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Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.
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It's hard to really compare new love and old love.
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If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
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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. (Hugh Hefner)
I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.
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I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.
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I am in very good health. I've never felt better.
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There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married, I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.
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