Atlantic City Quotes

• Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

  Bruce Springsteen

  Makeup, Hair, Cities

  Song: Atlantic City, Album: Nebraska, 1982

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• I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Cities, Way

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• The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.

  Drew Carey

  Beautiful, Girl, Las Vegas

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• I'll tell you, it's Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business. Or two words – Big Business.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Two, Bigs

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• It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the way from Texas, it's unusual.

  Phyllis George

  Thinking, Texas, Cities

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• The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.

  Stanley Ho

  Successful, Vegas, Cities

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• During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.

  Martin Scorsese

  Hands, Cities, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Cities, Vote, Made

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• I had been asked to open a nightclub in Atlantic City. They offered me a ridiculous amount of money. They literally overpaid me. So I did one show a night. Then they asked me back by popular demand. So I went back. Then I said, "To hell with this." I was only doing it for the money, and I was doing easy routines. It's just too much work to get up every day and practice.

  Gene Kelly

  Night, Practice, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Cities, Philadelphia, Letters

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come to challenge the seating of the regular Democratic Party from Mississippi. But we didn't think when we got there that we would meet people, that actually the other leaders of the Movement would differ with what we felt was right.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Party, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don't have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble.

  Brad Furman

  Vegas, Gambling, Cities

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.

  Genie Francis

  Kids, Hair, Sea

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• The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit at Atlantic City and let them lose all their missiles playing Keno.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Stars, War

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.191, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do.

  Leonard Horn

  Moving, Thinking, Cities

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• I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.

  Terence Winter

  War, Book, Thinking

  "Tricks of the trade from Broadwalk Empire creator Terence Winter" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. August 30, 2011.

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