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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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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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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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.
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Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.
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Have I gone too far?
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No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
