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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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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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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Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.
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Yoga probably makes me a better person.
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No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
