Gambling Quotes - Page 20

• Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Mistake, Humorous, Errors

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• Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Insightful

  Robert G Allen “Nothing Down For The 2000's volume 2”, Creative Intertrade Systems

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• There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

  John Warren Kindt

  Moving, Population, Would Be

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• The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

  John Warren Kindt

  Mistake, People, Gas Stations

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• I make movies I want to see.

  Neil LaBute

  Movie, Actors, Want

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• Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

  Bill Maher

  Hypocrite, Names, Two

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• At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota

  Artie Lange

  Kids, Mirages, Lines

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• Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

  Mario Cantone

  Thinking, Long, Rose

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• It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Fate, Hands

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• The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

  David Mamet

  Pain, Winning, Thrill

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.

  Artie Lange

  Stuff, Exciting, Knows

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• There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

  Will Rogers

  Education, Film, One Thing

  Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949) ch. 6

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• The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable taboos on sex, alcohol, gambling. We are now indeed a nation of laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuman.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Men, Law

  Gore Vidal (2007). “Selected Essays”, Abacus Software

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• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Six, Dice, Score

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• All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Sick, Long

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• Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

  Norm MacDonald

  Winning, Men, Disease

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• The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Nice, Idaho, Crosswords

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 05, 2005.

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• I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

  Michael Jordan

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

  Artie Lange

  Running, Gun, Guy

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• The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Games, Twelve, Ornaments

  Oliver Goldsmith “the traveller and the deserted village”, CUP Archive

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• Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

  Ted Allen

  Casinos, Cocktails, Buying

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• But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Sweat, Exit

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.221, Pan Macmillan

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• Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Blood

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• Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Humorous, Sharks

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.132, Da Capo Press

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• I gambled at the crap table all night and finally lost $8, but during that time the house gave me four drinks and two cigars, so it was still a lot cheaper than renting a room.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Humorous, Night

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