Casinos Quotes - Page 2

• The champion makes his own luck.

  Earl Blaik

  Gambling, Champion, Luck

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• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Gambling, Quitting, Gamer

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• I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

  Vera Farmiga

  Thinking, Gambling, Inspirational Football

  "A Film of One’s Own". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 2006.

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• Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.

  George Ade

  Hilarious, Sarcastic, Laughter

  Fables in Slang (1900) p. 133

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

  Rick Majerus

  Vegas, Gambling, Buffets

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• The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

  Frank Scoblete

  Lust, Desire, Machines

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• Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

  Richard Roeper

  Gambling, Cards, Gamer

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• The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

  Charles Spurgeon

  Winning, Men, Gambling

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 67: Autobiography Vol. 2”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The best bet you get is an even break.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Gambling, Break

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• People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Wind, People, Bars

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• Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Business, War, Gambling

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• The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

  Al Alvarez

  Gambling, Games, Looks

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• The best part about poker is there's no down side.

  Samantha Bee

  Gambling, Sides

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• You get your chips your way, I'll get my chips mine.

  Phil Ivey

  Games, Way, Chips

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• Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

  Thomas Sowell

  Las Vegas, People, Saving

  "Taxpayers’ Trillion". www.nationalreview.com. September 24, 2008 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225751/taxpayers-trillion-thomas-sowell.

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• Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Jobs, Serious

  1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

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• I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

  Ikue Mori

  Rocks, Long, Band

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• We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Vegas, Cameras, Audio

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• Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Boys, Play, Lucky

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• President Obama flew to a rally in Las Vegas last night. However, he did not visit any of the casinos. You know why? When you're $16 trillion in debt, they don't let you in.

  Jay Leno

  Night, Vegas, President

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• At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, Past, Thinking

  "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.

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• All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Wall, Moving, Writing

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ghetto, Dope, Hands

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• I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

  Eva Green

  Interesting, Want, Scripts

  Interview With Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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