Vegas Quotes - Page 10

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

  Julio Iglesias

  Las Vegas

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

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• I've learned a lot about putting a show up in Vegas. You can't just all of a sudden put up a show here and do well. Nobody does.

  John O'Hurley

  Doe, I've Learned, Wells

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

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• The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

  George Saunders

  Dubai, Years, San Francisco

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.22, A&C Black

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• There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. 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

  Gambling, People, Dull

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• Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

  Concha Buika

  Dream, Strange Places, Broken

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• My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

  John Travolta

  Road Trip, Happens, Knows

  Source: movies.about.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, Community, Accountability

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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, Cities

  Source: collider.com

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• Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.

  Diplo

  Able, More Time, Because I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Friendly, Like You, Groceries

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

  Evan Esar

  Two, Income, Seven

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• Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Las Vegas, Get Away

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• Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society

  Noel Coward

  Las Vegas, Cafes

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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, Devotion, Bizarre

  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

  Casinos, Hotel, Borrowers

  "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

  Church, Shows, Display

  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, Guy, Rooms

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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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• The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There's no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can't do something fun with your own time and money. If you can afford it, it's yours.

  Drew Carey

  Christian, Country, Fun

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• They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

  Lea DeLaria

  Gay, Men, Years

  "Box Lunch". Comedy album by Lea DeLaria, May 5, 1997.

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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

  Gambling, Choices, Voting

  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, Gambling

  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, Junk, Eras

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• Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

  Nicholas Pileggi

  Cities, Desert, Bills

  Nicholas Pileggi (2016). “Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• I go to Las Vegas--or at least I went to Las Vegas--because even though I knew everything that was sinister, calculating, and evil about it, I loved Las Vegas. Only in Vegas could I dare to fantasize that I was a Friend of Frank. Or that I was throwing the dice at Dino's favorite table. Or that I might luck out and sip bourbon with Rickles after his last lounge show. The D.I. oozed that kind of heady fantasy.

  Marc Cooper

  Evil, Luck, Tables

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