Hugh Hefner Quotes - Page 5

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• After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

  Hugh Hefner

  War, College, Illinois

  "Interview With Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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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.

  Hugh Hefner

  Fun, Social, Significant

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• When I was young I had a security blanket and a pet dog. The dog got sick and died and the blanket had to be burned, so I guess I was trying to recreate the image of security in the bunny. It was a Citizen Kane/Rosebud thing.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dog, Sick, Pet

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• We have a tremendous opportunity to try to start solving some of our overwhelming problems with population related environment, related to the hatred that exists between countries and religions, so we have a tremendous opportunity, but the dangers are very clearly there.

  Hugh Hefner

  Country, Opportunity, Hatred

  "Cold War/ Make Love Not War". Documentary, History, nsarchive.gwu.edu. 1998.

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• I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I've been doing the best I can.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Thinking, Supportive

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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.

  Hugh Hefner

  Party, Missing, Twenties

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

  Hugh Hefner

  America, Enemy, Blame

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

  Hugh Hefner

  People, Choices, Personal Choice

  "Cold War/ Make Love Not War". Documentary, History, nsarchive.gwu.edu. 1998.

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• They must be doing something right up there in Canada.

  Hugh Hefner

  Canada

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• The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people.

  Hugh Hefner

  Hands, People, Suspicious

  "Interview with Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• 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.

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• 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

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

  Hugh Hefner

  Home, People, Cooking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I've never gotten enough credit!

  Hugh Hefner

  Credit, Enough

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The business end of business has never interested me.

  Hugh Hefner

  Ends

  "Hugh Hefner: The Playboy Interview" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Over the course of my life I've had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women, many moved on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives, and I'm pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. I guess, as the old saying goes: You can't win 'em all!

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Winning, Healthy

  "Hugh Hefner Says Ex Holly Madison Has 'Chosen to Rewrite History to Stay in the Spotlight'" by Sierra Marquina, www.usmagazine.com. June 21, 2015.

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• 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

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• If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.

  Hugh Hefner

  Homosexual, Reverse, Ifs

  "Hugh Hefner, Gay Rights Pioneer" by Michelle Garcia, www.advocate.com. August 28, 2009.

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• 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.

  Hugh Hefner

  Children, Mistake, Thinking

  Interview with Ricardo Poupada, www.askmen.com.

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• 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.

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• I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

  Hugh Hefner

  Heart, Kids, Typical

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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.

  Hugh Hefner

  Acceptance, Creating, Peers

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• People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Jealous, People

  "Interview: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist And Rebel". Interview with Laremy Legel, Chelsia Hart, www.mtv.com. June 5, 2010.

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• I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

  Hugh Hefner

  Mother, Thinking, Numbers

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

  Hugh Hefner

  Magic, Mind, Age

  "Interview with Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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