Las Vegas Quotes - Page 3

• Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

  Sarah Vowell

  Cities, Lakes, Vegas

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

  Connie Stevens

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

  Johnny Vegas

  Fickle, Chance, Audience

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• I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

  Johnny Vegas

  Interesting, Acting, Feedback

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• In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Race, Kentucky

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.36, Vintage

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• I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

  Johnny Vegas

  Needs, Want, Return

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• I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.

  Johnny Vegas

  Nice, Thinking, Interesting

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• I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

  Tom Waits

  Hate, Kids, Vegas

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

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• Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jobs, Sex, Hands

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.41, Vintage

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• In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.

  Hal Rothman

  Fun, Believe, Vegas

  Hal Rothman, Mike Davis (2002). “The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.

  Marc Cooper

  Moon, Vegas, Self

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• When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying.

  Elayne Boosler

  New Year, Memories, Vegas

  "Elayne Boosler Maps Comedy Heaven And Hell On New Year’s Eve" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

  Michael Mina

  Vegas, Flavor, Guests

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• Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.

  Mark Zandi

  Country, Zero, Vegas

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• Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

  Nicholas Pileggi

  Vegas, Cities, Desert

  Nicholas Pileggi (2016). “Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas”, p.47, Open Road Media

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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, Cities

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• I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating.

  Holly Madison

  Girlfriend, Moving, Thinking

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Silly, Vegas, Gambling

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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• The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There's no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can't do something fun with your own time and money. If you can afford it, it's yours.

  Drew Carey

  Christian, Country, Fun

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• You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

  Johnny Vegas

  Women, Winning, Gentleman

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• I use very few muscles at the best of times.

  Johnny Vegas

  Use, Muscles

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• Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.

  Eydie Gorme

  Vegas, Tiny

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• In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, Philosophical, Thought Provoking

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.73, Vintage

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• In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupidity, Fear And Loathing, Thieves

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.73, Vintage

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• People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

  Christopher Meloni

  Dog, Vegas, Blue

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