Las Vegas Quotes - Page 8

• Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Saving, Casinos

  "Taxpayers’ Trillion". www.nationalreview.com. September 24, 2008 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225751/taxpayers-trillion-thomas-sowell.

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• [On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.

  Karen Kijewski

  Sleep, Cities, Vices

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• Is it me or is Bush going everywhere Kerry goes? So far in the past week, President Bush has followed John Kerry to Davenport, Iowa; New Mexico; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and he follows him to Portland, Oregon. The only place he never followed John Kerry was Vietnam.

  Jay Leno

  Past, Vegas, Portland Oregon

  "Bush Goes Off Message". www.washingtonpost.com. August 13, 2004.

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• I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.

  Frank Scoblete

  Thinking, Vegas, Cities

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• I don't think I've gone a day in my life without being inspired by Celine Dion. If you would've seen me at her concert in Las Vegas - like, I'm surprised I didn't get kicked out. I was literally sitting at the edge of my seat like the happiest girl in the entire universe.

  Lea Michele

  Girl, Thinking, Vegas

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• I'm one of the few reading and thinking people who loves Las Vegas for the vulgarity and omnipresence of the dream. The collective dream. There's something enormous about it. Let me say one thing: Las Vegas and cinema have similar roots. The country fair. The magician at the country fair. The vulgarity of the country fair.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Country, Reading

  Source: www.slate.com

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• [On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Vegas, Locks, Towns

  Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

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• I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.

  Julio Iglesias

  Vegas

  "As always, Julio Iglesias speaks the language … of love". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. January 13, 2011.

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• I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

  James Nesbitt

  Night, Play, Vegas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.

  Eric Thomas

  Communication, Vegas, Community

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• What it boils down to is that when you say the word Las Vegas it means something. You could say New York City and it doesn't really mean anything. When you say a word like Bangkok, in my mind it means something. There's not a lot of cities where the world literally brings a picture to your mind.

  Todd Phillips

  New York, Mean, Vegas

  Source: collider.com

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• Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

  Evan Esar

  Two, Vegas, Income

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• Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.

  Joan Didion

  Beautiful, Vegas, Devotion

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.64, Zola Books

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• Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Vegas, Casinos, Hotel

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 119), 1975.

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• Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

  Max Lucado

  Vegas, Church, Shows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I don't know what's scarier. Having someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping or breaking into someone else's room and finding out the guy is Mike Tyson.

  Jay Leno

  Sleep, Vegas, Guy

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• Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Children, Book

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.

  Jean Chretien

  Vegas, Gambling, Choices

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.287, Vintage Canada

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• Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

  Michael Connelly

  Sex, Real, Vegas

  Michael Connelly (2011). “Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)”, p.922, Hachette UK

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• We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also, perhaps the same logic, attaches itself to or underlies our masterpieces. We live in an amazing era when in spite of an absence of masters there is an explosion of masterpieces.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Vegas, Junk

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• Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

  Walter Wykes

  Vegas, Oddities, Cities

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• In Las Vegas, nothing ends very well.

  Walter Wykes

  Vegas, Ends, Wells

  Walter Wykes (2008). “One Act Plays from the Edge”

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• Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler.

  Marc Cooper

  Color, Class, America

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• I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Vegas, Relief, Los Angeles

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• I was booked into the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas with three other comedians. We all were using the Riviera in-house shampoo, so we all had equal shine and bounce.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Vegas

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