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Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
I do think the reality is, there is a general recognition of what I've accomplished.
Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.
My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.
I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.
For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.
I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.
I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.
Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.
If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.
The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.'
Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.
For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.
Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.
I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.
Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.
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.
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.
What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.
The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.
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.
You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.
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.
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.
I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.
The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.
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.
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.
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.
I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Beauty is everywhere - on the campus, in the office, living next door... Nice girls like sex too - it's a natural part of life. Don't be ashamed of it.
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.
I separated ways from the American feminist movement when they became anti-sexual. I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free.