Gamer Quotes - Page 8

• A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

  Artie Lange

  Christian, Drinking, Weekend

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• The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.

  Wilford Brimley

  People, May, Want

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• The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

  Nick Johnson

  Technology, Gaming

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• Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

  Trip Hawkins

  Healthy, Pace, Online

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• The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

  Peter Buffett

  Drinking, Gambling, Giving

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• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  Omar Sharif

  Passion, Years, Bridges

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• The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

  Tom Harkin

  Country, Gambling, President

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• Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

  John Shadegg

  Law, Gambling, Target

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• If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games. You have not been wasting your time. You have been building up a wealth of virtual experience that, as the first half of this book will show you, can teach you about your true self: what your core strengths are, what really motivates you, and what make you happiest.

  Jane McGonigal

  Regret, Book, Playing Games

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• Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

  Max von Sydow

  Return, Want, Investment

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• For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.

  Grace Napolitano

  Years, Ideas, People

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• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Dark, Choices, Age

  "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia". Book by Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie, p. 247, 2006.

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• I'm not a good guitar player.

  Adam Jones

  Player, Guitar, Guitar Player

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• When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

  Jose Mourinho

  Motivational, Soccer, Games

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

  Vin Diesel

  Saving Private Ryan, Amazement, Diesel

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• So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Pilots, Going Out, Half

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• I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert.

  Doug Davidson

  Beach, Thinking, Vacation

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• It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.

  Jane McGonigal

  Thinking, Playing Games, Loner

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.63, Penguin

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• I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

  Joshua Mohr

  Pain, Drug, Mind

  "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  J Allard

  Running, Real, Worry

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• Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

  Gary Gygax

  Men, Thinking, Games

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• I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

  Ruth Benedict

  Two, World, Two Lives

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

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• There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.

  Robert Cowley

  Peace, War, College

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• PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing... When a gamer buys a PS4 disc, they have the rights to that copy of the game.

  Jack Tretton

  Playing Games, Rights, Good Things

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• We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years.

  Grace Napolitano

  Past, Years, Program

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