Gambling Quotes - Page 13

• One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

  John Warren Kindt

  Population, Percent

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• Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

  Tim Burton

  Movie, Actors, Form

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• Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

  John Warren Kindt

  Average, Increase, Bankruptcy

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• If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling

  John Warren Kindt

  Want, Ifs

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• It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

  John Warren Kindt

  Country, Years, Wipe

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• The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

  John Warren Kindt

  Addiction, Crime, Bankruptcy

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• Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

  John Warren Kindt

  People, Track, Bankruptcy

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• Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

  Sandra Bullock

  Funny, Movie, Actors

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• I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

  John Warren Kindt

  Hate, Mistake, Population

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• You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

  John Warren Kindt

  People, Population, Casinos

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• It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

  John Warren Kindt

  Economy

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• Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

  John Warren Kindt

  Helping, Get Money, Stealing

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• Donald Trump he wanted casino gambling in Florida. Yes, you did.

  Jeb Bush

  Florida, Casinos, Trump

  "All In With Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. September 23, 2016.

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• You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn`t get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that`s not - I`m not going to be bought by anyone.

  Jeb Bush

  Florida, Casinos, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Expectations, Instinct

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think gambling can be a good thing if you don't take it too seriously. Take it and have fun with it, and don't lose what you can't afford to lose.

  Larry Holmes

  Fun, Thinking, Good Things

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers

  John Warren Kindt

  Numbers, People, Increase

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• We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

  John Warren Kindt

  Great Depression, Beats, Lottery

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• The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

  John Warren Kindt

  Dollars, Buying, Legislature

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• Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

  John Warren Kindt

  Cost, Development, Benefits

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• Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

  John Warren Kindt

  Dollars, Entertainment, Dip

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• If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

  Woody Allen

  Movie, Film, Profit

  "Newsweek", Volume 132, 1998.

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• What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

  John Warren Kindt

  Needs, Plans, Intervention

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• Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy

  John Warren Kindt

  Economy, Should

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• Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

  John Warren Kindt

  Responsible, Taxpayers, Addict

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