Gambling Quotes - Page 13

• There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Blood, Lust

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.177, University of Missouri Press

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• I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller.

  Henny Youngman

  Airplane, Vegas, Beats

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

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• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  Yahoo Serious

  Movie, Art, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Circles, Dregs, Respectable

  Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Peter L. Bernstein Classics Collection: Capital Ideas, Against the Gods, The Power of Gold and Capital Ideas Evolving”, p.321, John Wiley & Sons

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• The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

  Karl Marx

  Debt, Joints, Kind

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.827, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.

  Rebecca West

  Love You, Mean, Dark

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.193, Open Road Media

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• Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

  Ada Leverson

  Suspense, World, Torture

  Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

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• Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

  Eric Berne

  Games, Compromise, Intimacy

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• Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter.

  Greg Giraldo

  Parking Meters, People, Giants

  "Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget". TV Special, www.imdb.com. August 17, 2008.

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• Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Men, Tears, Circumstances

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• As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.

  Darren McCarty

  Sports, People, Debt

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• According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Sports, Religious, Stress

  "The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It". Book by Kelly McGonigal, www.businessinsider.com. December 29, 2011.

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• Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Sacred

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• In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.

  Isak Dinesen

  Strong, Father, Passion

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.282, Vintage

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• O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Ignorance, Simple

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• It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

  Blaine Nye

  Work, Winning, Blame

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• Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.

  Jean Chretien

  Vegas, Choices, Voting

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.287, Vintage Canada

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• For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Earth, Towns

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.42, Vintage

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• I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

  Scott Caan

  Mean, Vegas, Clubs

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• Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog.

  Tim Conway

  Dog, Home, Race

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• Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.

  Calvin Ayre

  Clothes, Government, Definitions

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• The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Decay, Tables, Disputes

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• It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.

  David Eagleman

  Addiction, Drug, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.165, Vintage

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• I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

  Rene Russo

  People, Bulls, Casinos

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• The Devil invented gambling.

  Saint Augustine

  Devil

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