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Hugh Hefner
Age: 91 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 9
Died: 2017
Died: September 27
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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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In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.
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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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I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.
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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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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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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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It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.
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I am in very good health. I've never felt better.
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Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
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I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.
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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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I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.
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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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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 think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely.
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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 phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people.
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I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.
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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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