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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
Recognition
World
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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. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet. "
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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 major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. "
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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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" My mother loaned me $1000. The first issue came out at the end of 1953. I knew I needed something original. I had a photographer shoot a 3D feature for the first issue and learned it would cost too much money. When the 3D thing turned out to be too expensive, at that same moment I came across the photos of Marilyn Monroe. "
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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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" 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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" I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. "
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Bed
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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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" There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society. "
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Me
Writing
Society
" 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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Blonde
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Now
" I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married. "
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Myself
Before
Found
" The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.' "
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Kind
Women
Playboy
" 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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Good People
Home
Good
" If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it. "
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Your
" 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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Think
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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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Impact
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" Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round. "
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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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You
Selfish
" I separated ways from the American feminist movement when they became anti-sexual. I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free. "
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I Believe
American
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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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Information
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" Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing the things that were right. And in the process, that set 'Playboy' apart. "
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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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" 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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Men
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" I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through the night all the time. "
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" Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am. "
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