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Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

Hugh Hefner

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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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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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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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Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
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Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
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America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.
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I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.
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I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.
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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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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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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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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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There are many roads to Mecca.
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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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It's hard to really compare new love and old love.
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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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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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Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.
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If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.
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I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that.
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