Gambling Quotes - Page 22

• Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

  Agnes Smedley

  Sports, Squash, Months

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• I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too strong an attraction for me. Whether that be in the form of gambling, fast cars, alcohol, drugs, whatever it happens to be... I think the lure of that lifestyle would be too strong.

  James Packer

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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• Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Horse, Golf, Trying

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Vegas, People, Dull

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• Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Years, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States?

  Gilles Deleuze

  War, Thinking, Organization

  Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (1987). “Dialogues”, Burns & Oates

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• There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Cutting, Choices

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.235, Penguin

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• Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

  Germaine Greer

  Two, Australia, Way

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• The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

  Edward de Bono

  Use, Statistics, Chance

  Edward De Bono (1971). “The use of lateral thinking”

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• To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

  Ruth Gordon

  Giving Up, Luck, Littles

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

  Clarence Birdseye

  Opportunity, Curiosity, Dams

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• Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

  Sydney Pollack

  Movie, Art, Way

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• Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Tables, Superstitions, Gaming

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). “Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler”, p.140, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jobs, Sex, Las Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.41, Vintage

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• I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Rocks, House

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• The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

  John Scarne

  Cheating, Men, House

  John Scarne (1980). “Scarne on dice”, Random House Value Pub

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• There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.

  Harry Browne

  Fighting, Drug Use, Epidemics

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• Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

  William C. Brown

  Games, Pleasure, Trading

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• Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.

  Bill Barich

  Horse, Pockets, Loser

  Bill Barich (2015). “Laughing in the Hills: A Season at the Racetrack”, p.211, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door.

  Frank Scoblete

  Doors, Feet, Gamble

  Frank Scoblete (2010). “Cutting Edge Craps: Advanced Strategies for Serious Players”, p.16, Triumph Books

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• Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.

  Timothy L. O'Brien

  Baseball, America, Dollars

  Timothy L. O'Brien (1998). “Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry”, Crown Business

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• To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

  Herbert Spencer

  Play, Billiards, Youth

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• Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Lasts, Privacy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

  Walt Disney

  Movie, Entertainment, Normal

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• I never enjoyed working in a film.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Movie, Actors, Film

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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