Latest Hugh Hefner Quotes from Interviews

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• I've always had a tremendously optimistic attitude about life, and the setbacks are never really setbacks for me, because I see it as a part of the adventure. And if you don't hold onto your dreams, you're a very foolish fellow, because dreams are what life is about.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Attitude, Adventure

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.latimes.com. July 31, 1994.

• My life has been devoted to trying to bring a little more understanding to human sexuality - not just in society, but also inside myself. The struggle has been internal as well as external. One of the reasons that I have such tremendous satisfaction at this point in my life is because I know I've made a difference. I've made a difference in a way that really matters to me. I see a lot of terrible things going on in the world, but there are some good things going on too, and I feel I've been a part of that. I really do feel I have been on the side of the angels.

  Hugh Hefner

  Struggle, Angel, Understanding

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.latimes.com. July 31, 1994.

• With the end of communism and the opening of Third World markets, the potential for Playboy is huge. It has been said that the two most famous trademarks in the world are Coca-Cola and the Playboy bunny rabbit. There is certainly no one else in our area that represents the American dream in this particular kind of way. That rabbit means economic freedom, personal freedom and political freedom. That potential is unlimited.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Mean, Political

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.latimes.com. July 31, 1994.

• After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn't have to prove anything anymore - in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life.

  Hugh Hefner

  Enjoy, Cause And Effect, Autobiography

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.latimes.com. July 31, 1994.

• Americans are fascinated by our sexuality and frightened by it. And during the Reagan and Bush era you got an entire decade of anti-sex government. Sex is not the enemy. It is the beginning of civilization, family and tribe. Sex can be twisted and exploited, but in its most essential form, it's the best part of who we are. And it frightens us.

  Hugh Hefner

  Enemy, Twisted, Sexuality

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related to sex. They included the kind of censorship laws that existed in the movies and books when I was young.

  Hugh Hefner

  Book, Feelings, Hurtful

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.latimes.com. July 31, 1994.

• I think our society is fragmented. Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. We are a schizophrenic nation. We were founded initially by Puritans, who escaped repression only to establish their own. Then the founding fathers gave us the Constitution to separate church and state. But the one thing that got left out of all those laws was human sexuality.

  Hugh Hefner

  Father, Thinking, Church

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

  Hugh Hefner

  Home, People, Cooking

  Source: www.mtv.com

• America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.

  Hugh Hefner

  America, Enemy, Blame

  Source: www.mtv.com

• In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

  Hugh Hefner

  80s And 90s, Conservative, Problem

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life.

  Hugh Hefner

  Good Friend, Majors

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

  Hugh Hefner

  Thinking, Wind, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that.

  Hugh Hefner

  Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.

  Hugh Hefner

  Home, Typical, Creation

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Everybody marches to a different drummer.

  Hugh Hefner

  Different, March, Drummer

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished.

  Hugh Hefner

  Reality, Thinking, Recognition

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I've never gotten enough credit!

  Hugh Hefner

  Credit, Enough

  Source: www.mtv.com

• It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.

  Hugh Hefner

  Makeup, High Heels, Civilization

  Source: www.mtv.com

• It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.

  Hugh Hefner

  Sex, Civilization, Focus

  Source: www.mtv.com

• The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.

  Hugh Hefner

  Beautiful, Photograph, Bizarre

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

  Hugh Hefner

  Reality, Historical, Playboy

  Source: www.mtv.com

• It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

  Hugh Hefner

  Difficult

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

  Hugh Hefner

  Television, Internet, Boundaries

  Source: www.mtv.com

• What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

  Hugh Hefner

  Technology, Would Be, Internet

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Life and values do run in cycles.

  Hugh Hefner

  Running, Cycles, Values

  Source: www.mtv.com