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" I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet. "

" 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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" Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.' "

" Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. "

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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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" Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did. "

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" Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms. "

" I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist. "