Las Vegas Quotes - Page 9

• I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller.

  Henny Youngman

  Airplane, Vegas, Gambling

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

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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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• Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

  Robert De Niro

  Running, Vegas, Car

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• Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

  Alissa Nutting

  Fall, Writing, Vegas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth.

  Alissa Nutting

  Men, Vegas, Earth

  Source: therumpus.net

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• New tracks like Las Vegas, hell, you could drive off the end of that track and continue safely 20 miles into the desert. But there's not a day goes by I don't think of Scott [Kalitta]. It's still traumatic.

  Connie Kalitta

  Thinking, Vegas, Track

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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• I love San Francisco, it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time. They walk in, and this is the start of their good time.

  Michael Mina

  Vegas, Doors, San Francisco

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.

  John C. Bogle

  Winning, Thinking, Vegas

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• I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

  Rutina Wesley

  Vegas, Theatre, Born

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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 always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Vegas, Cities, Taste

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”

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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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• 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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• 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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