Gambling Quotes - Page 19

• Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible

  Annette Crosbie

  Dog, Self, Years

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• Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

  Seth Klarman

  Strategy, Investment, Behavior

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• Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.

  John Daly

  Drinking, Blood, Granted

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• I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

  Josh Brolin

  Horse, Winning, Play

  "Double trouble" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2008.

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• The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained

  Heber J. Grant

  Practice, Games, Giving

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• There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Government, Three, Republican

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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• If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

  Dario Argento

  Movie, Watches, Actors

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, People

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• Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

  Doyle Brunson

  Hands, Trying, Matter

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• If there weren't luck involved, I would win every time.

  Phil Hellmuth

  Winning, Luck, Involved

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• You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

  Mary Schmich

  Movie, Two, People

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• Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

  Wim Wenders

  Movie, People, Needs

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• The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

  Mary Schmich

  Movie, Actors, Who We Are

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• State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

  John Warren Kindt

  Development, Wealth, Economic

  John Warren Kindt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (1996). “U.S. National security and the strategic economic base: the business-economic impacts of the legalization of gambling activities”

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• Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.

  Lucian Freud

  Losing, Problem, Economic

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.

  Amarillo Slim

  Hurt, Stupid, Thinking

  Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.

  Clarence Birdseye

  Guy, Curiosity, Bumps

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• You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away.

  Bobby Baldwin

  Crazy, Heart, Loss

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• Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

  Democritus

  Good Luck, Men, Idols

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• Shallow men believe in luck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Luck

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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• I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Stars, Wife

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• I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

  Stan Bowles

  Football, Drinking, Thinking

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• Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

  John Warren Kindt

  Years, Casinos, Corruption

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• It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

  Douglas Coupland

  Family, Careers, People

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• Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

  James Allen

  Encouraging, Inspiration, Not Giving Up

  "As a Man Thinketh". Book by James Allen, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1903.

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