Las Vegas Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

  Adam Sandler

  Vegas, Pockets

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• I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

  Mike Tyson

  Vegas, Mike, My Time

  "'I ain't the same person I was'". www.espn.com. June 28, 2004.

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• It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

  Johnny Vegas

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

  Johnny Vegas

  Enough, Baldness, Bigs

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• If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.

  Johnny Vegas

  Stars, War, Pieces

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• I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas.

  Louie Anderson

  Heart, Vegas, Spots

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• Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

  Artie Lange

  Sad, Mean, Vegas

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• I started a big part of my career in Vegas.

  Louie Anderson

  Vegas, Careers, Bigs

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• I had a great time doing Vegas. It's just that it takes a lot of time.

  John Elway

  Vegas, Had A Great Time, Great Times

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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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• I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

  Louie Anderson

  Boys, Vegas, Quitting

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• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cutting, Lunch

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• Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

  Esther Williams

  Business, Vegas, Use

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• The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

  Pia Zadora

  Success, Butterfly, Vegas

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• Oh, here's your tax dollars at work. This is what makes people furious. The head of the GSA, a woman named Martha Johnson, has resigned after they found out she spent over $830,000 on a four-day government conference in Las Vegas. And the president is furious. Not President Obama, the president of China. It's his money. It's his money she spent.

  Jay Leno

  Vegas, Government, People

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• Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

  Eli Roth

  Cities, Vegas, Hours

  "Eli Roth on haunted hotel Goretorium in Las Vegas, working with RZA". Interview with Solvej Schou, ew.com. August 23, 2012.

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• Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

  Hal Rothman

  Warrior, Vegas, Culture

  Hal Rothman, Virgil Hancock (2003). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century”, p.322, Psychology Press

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• I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

  David LaChapelle

  Vegas, Towers, Eiffel Tower

  "David LaChapelle’s ‘Still Life’: Celebrity Photographer On Bullying, Fame And Manic Depression (INTERVIEW, PHOTOS)". Interview with Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile 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. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

  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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• She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess.

  Jack Kerouac

  Heart, Men, Vegas

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “Big Sur”, p.89, Penguin

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• I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only.

  Robert Goulet

  Thinking, Vegas, People

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• One of the things I like about being a celebrity is that you can get away with murder. Not just metaphorically, literally. Remember that annoying blond dog reporter at E News used to talk smack about me? I paid two mobsters five million dollars each to throw her off the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.

  Zach Braff

  Dog, Vegas, Two

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• I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

  Rick Majerus

  Vegas, Gambling, Casinos

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