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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
Hugh Hefner
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Hugh Hefner
Age: 91 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 9
Died: 2017
Died: September 27
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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.
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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.
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The religious heritage sort of suggests implicitly and explicitly that you pay your dues and you get your reward later on, that's a little inconsistent with the notion of personal, happiness. I am a strong believer in a set of values that are rooted in the notion of happiness and personal fulfillment.
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Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.
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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.
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If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.
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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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Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
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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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I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.
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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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Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.
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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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I've nailed more women than I could count... at least I think they were women
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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.
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For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.
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Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none.
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