Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

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Life Short Dream Living

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Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'

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Asked Best Hugh Line

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The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

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Fantasies Guy Interesting Living

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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

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Force Major Religion Sex

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Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

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Beautiful Keeps Myself Surrounding

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I am in very good health. I've never felt better.

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Better Felt Good Health

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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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Beginning Combination End Keeps

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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.

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Along Children Get Getting

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The business end of business has never interested me.

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Business End Interested Never

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In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

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Could Dreams Imagined Life

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I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

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First Grave Retirement Step

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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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Affects Because Different Get

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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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Define Less Peers Society

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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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About Always Half Heart

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I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

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About Going Grow Never

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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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Acceptance Aged Comic Creating

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It's hard to really compare new love and old love.

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Compare Hard Love New

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Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

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Driving Embrace Enemy Force

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It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

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Good Listen Never Other

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Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

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About Connected Feel Future

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I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

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Before Find Found Get

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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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Anybody Guess Know Man

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I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

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Arrive Been Children Disappears

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I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.

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Active Feminist Humanist

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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.

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American Became Believe Embracing

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What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

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Before Even Made Magazine

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'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was trying to bring sex into the fold of a healthy lifestyle.

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Bring Concerned Far Fold

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Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

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Fantasies Live Men Onto

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Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round.

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Attraction Between Does Make

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Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy.

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Age Even Healthy Largely

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To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent.

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"31 Hugh Hefner Quotes & Sayings

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Hugh Hefner

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'

Hugh Hefner

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Hugh Hefner

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Hugh Hefner

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner

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.

Hugh Hefner

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.

Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

Hugh Hefner

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

Hugh Hefner

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.

Hugh Hefner

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Hugh Hefner

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

Hugh Hefner

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

Hugh Hefner

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.

Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

Hugh Hefner

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

Hugh Hefner

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

Hugh Hefner

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

Hugh Hefner

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

Hugh Hefner

I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

Hugh Hefner

I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.

Hugh Hefner

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.

Hugh Hefner

What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

Hugh Hefner

'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was trying to bring sex into the fold of a healthy lifestyle.

Hugh Hefner

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

Hugh Hefner

Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round.

Hugh Hefner

Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy.

Hugh Hefner

To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent.

Hugh Hefner

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