Christie Hefner Quotes
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.
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It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
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In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in the world where I grew up, in Chicago in the Fifties and Sixties, one key way of protesting ourselves - 'we' meaning black people - against racism, against its stereotypes and its insults, was to curate and narrate very carefully the story of the people.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.
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Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.
