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Hugh Hefner Quotes

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: publisher
Nationality: american
Birth: April 9, 1926 - September 27, 2017

Topics

Grateful Parents People Me Wonderful

There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Age Today Impact Tools Speed Will

I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

Teacher New York Texas Drama New

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Focus Politics City Night News Who

Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever.

War Old Her Malice Still Dublin

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

Love Good Live You Years Get

I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I were going to be free, I needed to be away from, kind of, like, Nashville and kind of get out of the South and get out of the country.

Free Country Desire Kind Nashville

It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.

Pauline Neville-Jones

Women Look Important See Successful

I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that there were six extraordinary books on the shortlist.

Richard Flanagan

Hope Acceptance Remember Speech Year

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Life Heart Art Moment Mind Tongue

Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

Small Long Risk Diary Kid Take

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Best Teachers Never Had Studied

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

Love Generation Diet Fall Born

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