Vegas Quotes

• 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, Saving, Investing

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

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• In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

  Steven Wright

  Men, Gambling, Las Vegas

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• How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Lonely, Home, Boys

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.9, Vintage

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• The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Fear And Loathing, Depth

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Las Vegas, Sky, Top Down

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)

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• Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Memories, Knowing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

  Merv Griffin

  Newton, Wayne, Mickey

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

  Ralph Nader

  Gambling, Presidential, Gamer

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• There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Winning, Fear And Loathing, Sparks

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas - except the drone.

  Mort Sahl

  Hangover, Las Vegas, Sin City

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2011

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• I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Mirages, Week

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• And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Military, Mean

  "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", 1998.

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Night, Heaven, Looks

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

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• For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gambling, Earth, Towns

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.42, Vintage

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• We can't stop here, this is bat country!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Fear And Loathing, Bats

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Drug, Fear And Loathing, Hunters

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)

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• I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.

  Norm Crosby

  Redneck, Thinking, Las Vegas

  Interview with Elvis Australia, www.elvis.com.au. February 15, 2005.

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• Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

  Jonathan Clements

  Running, Retirement, Vacation

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• Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about.

  Oscar Goodman

  Las Vegas, Hatred, Zero Tolerance

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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, Knives

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

  Mike Tyson

  Mike, My Time, Dues

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

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• The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question; as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Mind, Fear And Loathing

  "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream".

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• History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Las Vegas, Long

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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

  Steven Tyler

  Humor, Tunnels, Light

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

  Tom Waits

  Hate, Kids, Disneyland

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

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