Las Vegas Quotes - Page 10

• For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

  Neil Postman

  Vegas, Messages, Television

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• ["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

  Concha Buika

  Dream, Vegas, Strange Places

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• There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Vegas, Gambling, People

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• [Las Vegas in the early 1960] was thrilling, exciting... I would describe it as very Parisian.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Vegas, Exciting, 1960s

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Years ago nudity was not done in the United States. But during that late 1950s era in Vegas it began at the Tropicana, and spread to the other venues. Now the showgirls are going away again and Cirque du Soleil, the magic acts and the animal acts reign in Las Vegas. But I don't think you'll completely lose the boobie shows.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Animal, Thinking, Vegas

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We met in an airport in Las Vegas, Harrison Ford and I, and he said, "I just finished a movie called 42. I play Branch Rickey. There's this kid in it playing Jackie Robinson. I think it's a pretty good movie."

  Larry King

  Kids, Thinking, Vegas

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• These days I'm headquartered out of Las Vegas, which is what I consider and the world considers to be the entertainment capital of the globe. It's been interesting because I've seen the rise of Vegas and in recent years I've seen the fall of Vegas. It's now interesting to take a look at it as it begins its bounce back again.

  Robin Leach

  Fall, Vegas, Years

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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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, Vegas, Oasis

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• Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

  William J. Clinton

  Mother, Weekend, Vegas

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• Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.

  Hal Rothman

  Deviance, Used, Brands

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.20, Routledge

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• Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.

  Elvis Presley

  Travel, Night, Vegas

  Elvis Presley (2005). “Elvis Presley”, p.124, Berklee Press

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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, Vegas, Years

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• If we want money we’ll go to Las Vegas, if we want an after party we’ll go to Miami but if we want to play for love, we still come to India!

  Axwell

  Party, Vegas, Play

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• I'm really fascinated by how the mob ethos permeates places like Las Vegas and Chicago. I have the book set in Las Vegas and Chicago for pretty specific reasons, some of which are that in both cases the mob history has become a tourist attraction - I'm actually doing a book signing in Las Vegas at The Mob Museum, which I am positively giddy about! - and I find that especially unusual. If you don't call these people "the Mafia" they're just a band of psychopaths killing people for profoundly dumb reasons.

  Tod Goldberg

  Book, Vegas, Museums

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A little bit of this town goes a very long way.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Long, Littles, Way

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.189, Vintage

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• I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
  I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

  Mick Jagger

  Stars, Vegas, Rocks

  "Leader of the brand" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2005.

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• Im probably one of the worst people with numbers youve ever met. My brothers always kid that they think Im counting cards in Vegas, but Im just trying to add things up.

  Luke Wilson

  Brother, Kids, Thinking

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• We'd just released a zebra in Las Vegas.

  Rick Riordan

  Zebras, Vegas

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, School, Hockey

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• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched.

  William McKeen

  Book, Vegas, Perfect

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

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• The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

  John Green

  Vegas, Dragons, Want

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• "I've been thinking," Brooklyn said as I gawked at the god sitting next to me, "if you get all lovey-dovey and decide to elope to Las Vegas where Jared uses his powers to clean up at the poker tables and you guys buy a mansion in the Manzano Mountains with twenty-seven rooms and decide - because you're rich and all - to buy a new computer, can I have your iMac then?"... "Um, no, you're not getting my iMac." "Dang."

  Darynda Jones

  Thinking, Vegas, Guy

  "Death and the Girl Next Door". Book by Darynda Jones, 2012.

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• Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans?

  Meg Cabot

  Vegas, Normal, Married

  Twitter post from Jul 09, 2014

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• I don't like working in a studio, at all. I just prefer to be on location, rather than hearing the bells of the studio going off. It's like being in Las Vegas, where no one knows the time and there are no windows.

  Eric Bana

  Vegas, Bells, Hearing

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