Las Vegas Quotes - Page 4

• Still humping the American Dream

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.56, Vintage

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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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• But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Vegas, Knives

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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

  Johnny Vegas

  Use, Muscles

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• Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

  Todd Phillips

  Vegas, Decision, Sound

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

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• You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

  Johnny Vegas

  Comic, Stage, Felt

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• The last time I appeared in Las Vegas, they were wearing hoop skirts and Davy Crockett hats, ... But they say 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.' And as far as fashion is concerned, that's a good thing.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Vegas, Lasts

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• My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Lakes, Vegas, Athletic

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 14, 2004.

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Heart, Journey

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Tunnels, Light

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• Buy the ticket, take the ride.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.238, Pan Macmillan

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• You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Eye, Hunting, Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.55, Vintage

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• There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills, blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - the mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting, because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can’t control it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Loss, Men, Skills

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• Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

  Steven Tyler

  Humor, Vegas, Tunnels

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• I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

  Johnny Vegas

  Drama, Serious, Paranoia

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• Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.

  Oscar Goodman

  Zero, Vegas, Hatred

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• And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.

  Davy Jones

  Vegas, Three, Seven Days

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• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  Otis Blackwell

  Vegas, Publishing House, Gentleman

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• I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

  Solomon Burke

  Vegas, Sixteen, Hospitality

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• No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

  Ralph Nader

  Vegas, Gambling, Presidential

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• I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

  Ben E. King

  Vegas, Comedian

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

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• 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

  Money, Vegas, Saving

  "Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. December 17, 2009.

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• It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

  Paul Samuelson

  Vegas, Office, Rich

  "Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. December 17, 2009.

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• Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Night, Vegas, Heaven

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.233, W. W. Norton & Company

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