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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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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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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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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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 have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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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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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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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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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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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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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.
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If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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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.
