Christie Hefner Quotes
I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
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There's a conscious decision to everything I do.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
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I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.
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Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.
