“One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.” IfsThinkingWorldWayProblemLanguageForceLevelsIssuesParticularTvsLowsWideAbstractComplexityVocabularyOutlookGrammarWatching TvLow LevelAbstract Thinking Author:Jeanette Winterson
“The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's empowering and offers a way to speak about yourself that you don't have if all you are doing is reading the newspaper and watching TV.” IfsWayBookSometimesReadingFoundSpeakLanguageDifficultTvsOffersComplexesNewspapersEmpoweringAbout YourselfWatching Tv Author:Jeanette Winterson
“We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.” MindStatesBodyAmericaChurchLimitsSupposed To BeMind And BodyInappropriateInconsistent Author:Hugh Hefner
“I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what made the magazine so popular was, there was a point of view in the magazine, that you couldn't run nude pictures without some kind of rational that they were art.” ThinkingKindArtMadeRunningViewsPoint Of ViewNakedRationalMagazinesPlayboy Author:Hugh Hefner
“I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.” GirlSexEnemyNiceViolenceNice Girl Author:Hugh Hefner
“There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesBitsDealsPrideConflictLittle BitAccomplishmentDragonsControversy Author:Hugh Hefner
“The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people.” PeopleHandsSuspicious Author:Hugh Hefner
“I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.” PeopleThinkingImportantCultureRealizingPopsPop Culture Author:Hugh Hefner
“I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.” EnoughTermSimpleRaisedFortunateVery Romantic Author:Hugh Hefner