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My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.
Paula Scher
2.
Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to. There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor. There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off. If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.
Jacque Fresco
3.
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
Dean Martin
Flip the script.
4.
Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.
John Daly
5.
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.
W. C. Fields
6.
Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.
Paul Tudor Jones
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The only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins
Big K.R.I.T.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks
9.
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Sophocles
10.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock
12.
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.
Charles Baudelaire
13.
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
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You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
Albert Einstein
15.
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright
16.
Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
Norm MacDonald
18.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt Disney
19.
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
George Bernard Shaw
20.
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Newman
21.
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
22.
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
Will Rogers
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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
Eli Siegel
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I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.
Amarillo Slim
25.
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock
26.
If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.
Michael Ventura
27.
Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.
Puggy Pearson
29.
They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.
Frank Scoblete
30.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Roger Ebert
31.
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers
Peter Singer
32.
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Orson Welles
33.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson
34.
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
Mark Twain
35.
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.
Vince Cable
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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Georges Pompidou
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No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
Ralph Nader
39.
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .
Karl Marx
40.
I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
Joe E. Lewis
41.
I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.
Michael Franzese
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Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.
Mike Caro
43.
I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.
George Raft
44.
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
Samantha Bee
45.
Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.
John Daly
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett
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Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
Eric Berne
49.
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Oskar Werner
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To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth
Herbert Spencer