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" I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. "
Hugh Hefner
Successful
World
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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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" Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so. "
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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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" In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life. "
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" I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. "
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" I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. "
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" With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club... one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications - added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar - and the bunny was born. "
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" I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist. "
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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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" 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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" One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve. "
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" 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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" If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it. "
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" Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now. "
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" The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. "
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" Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. "
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" The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. "
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" I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated. "
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" Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am. "
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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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" 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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" Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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