Roulette Quotes - Page 2

• As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Investing, Weight

  Benjamin Graham, David Dodd (2008). “Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett”, p.701, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I have a nut allergy. When I was at school the other children used to make me play Russian roulette but force-feeding me a packet of Revels.

  Milton Jones

  Children, School, Nuts

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• When the boys at school found out I had a potentially fatal peanut allergy, they used to hold me up against a wall and play Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels!

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Wall, School

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• The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Food, Book, Machines

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• I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.

  David Mamet

  Grief, Loss, Odds

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• Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Mind, Littles

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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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• Horse racing is animated roulette.

  Roger Kahn

  Money, Horse, Gambling

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?

  Devra Davis

  Phones, Play, Brain

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• Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

  Gary Cole

  Actors, Television, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.

  J. D. Salinger

  Blue, Tables, Arms

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Suicide, Mean

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• The best advice I can give people when they buy Burgundy, which is a bit of a roulette game, is to look for producers who are tried and true... Look for the name of the producer, whether Michel Lafarge, Domaine Leflaivre, Dominique Lafont, or another. When they put their name on the bottle, they're proud.

  Daniel Johnnes

  Wine, Games, Names

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• When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Lucky To Be Alive, Jail, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

  Karl Pearson

  Foundation, Investing, Records

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• Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that,
  Think about it...playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

  Fredro Starr

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Telephones

  Christopher Isherwood (1949). “The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel-diary”

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• This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

  Nicholas Stern

  Play, Two, Climate

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• condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

  Peter Kreeft

  Gun, Twenties, Four

  Peter Kreeft (1996). “Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War”, p.66, Ignatius Press

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• This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Bullets, Revolver

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• The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Suicide, Gun, Climate

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

  Wayne Hale

  Past, Foam, Damage

  "NASA mulls threat from protrusions". www.cnn.com. August 1, 2005.

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• One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done.

  Thomas Sowell

  Play, People, Months

  "Do No Harm: An Interview With Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Harsanyi, thefederalist.com. January 13, 2015.

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• You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.

  Tucker Max

  Zero, Play

  Tucker Max (2011). “Assholes Finish First”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't really care for or that much about Chat Roulette. I think the phenomenon of it and like the first wow factor which was so absolutely insane about Chat Roulette. Certainly that's what inspired me to make that movie but I think that's true for everyone that used Chat Roulette which is why it was such an explosion. Now it's just kind of disappeared. You don't hear much about it anymore.

  Casey Neistat

  Thinking, Insane, Firsts

  Source: www.tvequals.com

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