Vegas Quotes - Page 5

• I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

  Pete Rose

  Months

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• I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, wed talk on the phone, and if I wasnt doing anything, Id fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.

  Frankie Valli

  Memories, Spring, Phones

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• I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

  James Nesbitt

  Night, Play, Noise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When i play in Las Vegas I play for money, when I play in Miami I play for holidays but when I play in #India I play for Love

  Axwell

  Holiday, Play, India

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• Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

  Walter Wykes

  Oddities, Cities, Lame

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• What happens in Vegas, I'm telling everyone.

  Dane Cook

  Adventure, Happens

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• One of the things I like about being a celebrity is that you can get away with murder. Not just metaphorically, literally. Remember that annoying blond dog reporter at E News used to talk smack about me? I paid two mobsters five million dollars each to throw her off the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.

  Zach Braff

  Dog, Two, Dollars

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• Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Garden, Oasis, Air

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• With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.

  Howard Thompson

  Art, Ice Cream, Viva

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• President Obama flew to a rally in Las Vegas last night. However, he did not visit any of the casinos. You know why? When you're $16 trillion in debt, they don't let you in.

  Jay Leno

  Night, President, Debt

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• But Vegas is really my first home.

  David Copperfield

  Home, Firsts, First Home

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• The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

  Clive James

  People, Documentaries, Classic

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• I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas.

  Michael Mina

  Believe, Cities, Cooking

  "Michael Mina: Las Vegas Dining Isn’t About the 99-Cent Buffet Anymore". Interview with Anneli Rufus, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

  Harold Nicholas

  Real, Black, Prejudice

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• Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

  Esther Williams

  Business, Use, Way

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• Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Opportunity, Years, Long

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• George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.

  Bill Medley

  Real, Blessed, Circles

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• Branson, Missouri, is Vegas for people with no teeth.

  Dennis Miller

  People, Teeth, Missouri

  "Wish you weren't here: Travelers' pithy insults, putdowns, critiques" by John Flinn, www.sfgate.com. August 24, 2007.

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• I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.

  Geoff Rickly

  Crazy, July, Married

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.

  Jean-Sebastien Giguere

  Hockey, Games, Guy

  "Top Shelf: Veteran Giguere calls out 'embarrassing' Avs". www.foxnews.com. April 09, 2013.

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• After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Mirrors, Careers, Perfect

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• Is it me or is Bush going everywhere Kerry goes? So far in the past week, President Bush has followed John Kerry to Davenport, Iowa; New Mexico; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and he follows him to Portland, Oregon. The only place he never followed John Kerry was Vietnam.

  Jay Leno

  Past, Portland Oregon, Iowa

  "Bush Goes Off Message". www.washingtonpost.com. August 13, 2004.

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• North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Syndicate, Forty

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.

  John Burdett

  Expression, Glitter, Concrete

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• Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.

  Tom Shadyac

  Lying, Home, Cheater

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