Vegas Quotes - Page 2

• Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

  Todd Phillips

  Decision, Sound, Bangkok

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

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• Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Psychology, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.90, Vintage

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• With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Thinking, Doors

  "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". www.imdb.com.

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• We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Two, Drug, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Heart, Journey

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

  Sigourney Weaver

  Las Vegas, Wanted, My Own

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• There's just no quiet in Vegas.

  Barry Manilow

  Las Vegas, Quiet

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

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• Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

  Artie Lange

  Sad, Mean, Tragedy

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• I started a big part of my career in Vegas.

  Louie Anderson

  Las Vegas, Careers, Bigs

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• I had a great time doing Vegas. It's just that it takes a lot of time.

  John Elway

  Las Vegas, Had A Great Time, Great Times

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• There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

  Jan Morris

  Cities, Mountain, Desert

  Jan Morris (1985). “Journeys”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

  Louie Anderson

  Boys, Quitting, Greedy

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• To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Las Vegas, Tunnels

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.

  Oscar Goodman

  Zero, Hatred, Tolerance

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• I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas.

  Louie Anderson

  Heart, Spots, Warm

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• I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

  Ben E. King

  Las Vegas, Comedian

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

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• I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

  David Cassidy

  Successful, Years, Careers

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• Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

  Wayne Newton

  Together, Done, Grew Up

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• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  Otis Blackwell

  Publishing House, Gentleman, Fever

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• I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only.

  Robert Goulet

  Thinking, People, Throat

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• Still humping the American Dream

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Fear And Loathing, Stills

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.56, Vintage

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Light Life

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Knives, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reality, Drug, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

  Wayne Newton

  Names, Missing, Captains

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