Casinos Quotes

• I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.

  Robert Irvine

  Running, Restaurants, Institutions

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• Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

  Maria Cantwell

  Competition, Commodity, Embrace

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• The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Funny, Money, Gambling

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• With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

  Richard Branson

  Two, Luck, Bed

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• I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Running, Block

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• I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

  Mel Tillis

  Two, Here And There, Week

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• The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

  Tina Thompson

  Jobs, Community, Dollars

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• It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

  Mario Puzo

  Science, Men, Gambling

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• Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Long, Term, Loses

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• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

  Vince Cable

  Loss, Gambling, Years

  "The Storm ... how to survive it (and how to prevent its return)" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2009.

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• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  Samantha Bee

  Gambling, Years, People

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• The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Money, Business

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.43, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

  Paul Newman

  Sweet, Money, Humorous

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• When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?

  Robert De Niro

  Love, Trust, Keys

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• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Money

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• A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me.

  Joan Didion

  Morning, Vegas, Gambling

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• Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.

  Val Guest

  Book, Might, Firsts

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• The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play.

  Henry Tamburin

  Player, Gambling, Majority

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• Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.

  Trish Stratus

  Brain, Together, Rama

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• I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.

  Tia Carrere

  Parks, Roller Coaster, Coasters

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Gambling, Two

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• In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

  Robert De Niro

  Money, Gambling, Play

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• A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Gambling, Gentleman

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• True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

  John Hay

  Money, Home, Gambling

  Distichs no. 15 (1890)

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• I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

  Rene Russo

  Gambling, People, Bulls

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