Vegas Quotes - Page 2

• Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

  Todd Phillips

  Decision, Sound, Bangkok

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

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• We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Two, Drug, Fear And Loathing

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

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• With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Thinking, Doors

  "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". www.imdb.com.

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• Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Psychology, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.90, Vintage

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• Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

  Sigourney Weaver

  Las Vegas, Wanted, My Own

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• Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Heart, Journey

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I started a big part of my career in Vegas.

  Louie Anderson

  Las Vegas, Careers, Bigs

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• I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas.

  Louie Anderson

  Heart, Spots, Warm

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• I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

  Scott Caan

  Mean, Gambling, Clubs

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• There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

  Jan Morris

  Cities, Mountain, Desert

  Jan Morris (1985). “Journeys”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

  David Cassidy

  Successful, Years, Careers

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• I had a great time doing Vegas. It's just that it takes a lot of time.

  John Elway

  Las Vegas, Had A Great Time, Great Times

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• But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Knives, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• Still humping the American Dream

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Fear And Loathing, Stills

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.56, Vintage

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• No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reality, Drug, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

  Norman Mailer

  Moon, Night, Jewels

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.256, Random House

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Light Life

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• There's just no quiet in Vegas.

  Barry Manilow

  Las Vegas, Quiet

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

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• I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.

  Juice Newton

  Las Vegas

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• I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

  Wayne Newton

  Names, Missing, Captains

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• I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

  Ben E. King

  Las Vegas, Comedian

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

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• I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only.

  Robert Goulet

  Thinking, People, Throat

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• In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Race, Kentucky, Oakland

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.36, Vintage

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• Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.

  Oscar Goodman

  Zero, Hatred, Tolerance

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• I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

  Solomon Burke

  Sixteen, Hospitality, Sand

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