Christie Hefner Quotes
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
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Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.
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I drove motorcycles through college. I didn't have the money to buy a car.
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You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.
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No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
