Gambling Quotes - Page 24

• Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

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• I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

  W. C. Fields

  Alcohol, Half, Wild Women

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• Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Loss, Garden, Self

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• If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

  Anthony Daniels

  Intelligent, Men, Clothes

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• As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle.

  Daniel De Leon

  Mean, Divorce, Cutting

  "Trimming the Poodle". "The Daily People" Newspaper, November 2, 1908.

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• Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

  Marcel Proust

  Intelligent, Doctors, People

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• I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

  Fabian Perez

  Father, Character, Views

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• I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Mother, Father, Responsibility

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• If you're addicted to gambling, you know where to go to gamble. So, if you have a condition where you're addicted to sex, you know where other that are looking for the same thing are going.

  Michael Fassbender

  Sex, Gamble, Knows

  "Michael Fassbender and Director Steve McQueen SHAME Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2011.

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• Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

  Thomas Hughes

  Selfish, Boys, Men

  Thomas Hughes (1857). “School Days at Rugby”, p.199

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• The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Exercise, Cheater, Play

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• My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Family, Daughter, Mother

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• I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

  Jack Nicholson

  Football, Golf, Games

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.

  Ben Affleck

  Hard Work, Ideas, People

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• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sports, Golf, Pool Table

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• Snake eyes is a gambling term, and an animal term, too.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Player, People

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.

  Bill Nighy

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

  Dennis Quaid

  Movie, Hero, Important

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• The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they’re willin’ to lose everything. If they win, they’re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.

  Puggy Pearson

  Real, Mean, Winning

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• We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more carefully. Men are more callous with money. Their first reflex is to blow it by getting drunk in a pub, or on prostitutes or gambling. Women, on the other hand, are endowed with a tremendous sense of self-sacrifice and try to get the best out of the money, for their children, but also for their husbands.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Children, Husband, Sacrifice

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• My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.

  Paula Scher

  Play, Two, Numbers

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• And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop.

  Alma Katsu

  Running, Drinking, People

  Alma Katsu (2011). “The Taker”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  A. A. Milne

  Graduation, Education, Memorable

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• My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

  Tommy Tune

  Ideas, Central Park, Tunes

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

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