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My life is an open book. With illustrations.

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Hugh Hefner
Age: 91 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 9
Died: 2017
Died: September 27
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I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.
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I've nailed more women than I could count... at least I think they were women
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I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
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Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.
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I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.
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My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.
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I'm actually a very moral guy.
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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.
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I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.
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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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As Ray Bradbury - a longtime contributor to Playboy - said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they're talking about the contents of the magazine, they don't see the forest. People don't see the other part of my life because they're too fascinated with the girls.
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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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America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.
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We're separated by our myths.
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You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
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I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
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Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
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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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In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago.
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You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.
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