Vegas Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.

  Marc Cooper

  Moon, Self, Might

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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

  Relief, Los Angeles, Prostitution

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• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched.

  William McKeen

  Book, Perfect, Fear And Loathing

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

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• In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.

  Hal Rothman

  Las Vegas, Cities, Starting Over

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.142, Routledge

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• Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.

  Hal Rothman

  Las Vegas, Desire, Inability

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.25, Routledge

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• In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.

  Hal Rothman

  Fun, Believe, Cities

  Hal Rothman, Mike Davis (2002). “The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

  Hal Rothman

  Real, Thinking, Visitors

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge

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• Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

  Hal Rothman

  Running, Self, Ethos

  Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge

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

  Hal Rothman

  Warrior, Culture, Epitome

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

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• If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out?

  Wesley Pruden

  Las Vegas, Happens, Ifs

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• I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.

  Mark Shields

  Mean, Weekend, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

  Peter Beinart

  Winning, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Party, Fighting, Weekend

  "Floyd Mayweather says delays just made fight with Manny Pacquiao bigger" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2015.

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• Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

  Douglas Coupland

  Las Vegas, Games, Gone

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• The best thing that could've happened to me was that I learned a lot in Vegas, but I didn't know how to implement it. Whenever I came to Texas, all we had was Marc Laimon, jiu-jitsu coach. We didn't have a striking coach. So me and him started to just develop our own game, because he knows nothing about striking. We sat down and we sort of found my style. I think that was the best thing that could've happened to me.

  Johny Hendricks

  Thinking, Games, Texas

  Source: bleacherreport.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

  Doors, San Francisco, Availability

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Lucky, Casinos

  "Dan Harmon Talks HARMONTOWN, Touring, the Writing Process, RICK AND MORTY, COMMUNITY Season 6, and More". Interview with Eva Dickson, collider.com. October 2, 2014.

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• I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

  Rita Rudner

  School, Math, Worry

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• Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas

  Paul Samuelson

  Fun, Waiting, Investing

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• The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

  Cal Thomas

  Dollars, Stimulus, Plans

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• With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don't have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble.

  Brad Furman

  Gambling, Cities, Development

  Source: collider.com

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• These days I'm headquartered out of Las Vegas, which is what I consider and the world considers to be the entertainment capital of the globe. It's been interesting because I've seen the rise of Vegas and in recent years I've seen the fall of Vegas. It's now interesting to take a look at it as it begins its bounce back again.

  Robin Leach

  Fall, Years, Interesting

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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