Don Rickles Quotes

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

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

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Should
  • Presidential
  • Vegas

• I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Love
  • Like
  • Vegas

• I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Home
  • Beautiful
  • Ocean

• KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Kiss
  • Entertainment
  • Vegas

• Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Nice
  • Said
  • Vegas

• I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Inspired
  • Influence
  • Show

• The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Team
  • Popular

• I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Live
  • Nature

• I've discovered the burger is a crazy thing in Vegas, but I was one of the early chefs to do a lot of burgers.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Crazy
  • Vegas
  • Burger

• Israel is not Vegas, and it will not be.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Will
  • Israel
  • Vegas

• Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Up
  • Done
  • Together

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

  

  Wayne Newton
  • First
  • Names
  • Vegas

• Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• I love coming to Las Vegas. I've always loved it and always had a good time.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Time
  • Good
  • Always

• I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Age
  • Old
  • Vegas

• Lilith might be strong enough now to handle troublemakers herself, but she did not want to do that unless she had to. It would not help the people become a community, and if they could not unite, nothing else they did would matter.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • She
  • Help

• The best time to go to Las Vegas is during Christmastime, because there's no drug you can take that will recreate the experience of watching people gamble while they play Christmas carols. I'm Jewish, and I'm astonished. People going, 'GODDAMMIT!' 'JESUS CHRIST!' 'HOLY FUCK!' '...pa-rum-pum-pum-pum, me and my drum.'

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• To me, 'X Factor' is like Vegas. Fake, twisted, but kind of wonderful. Maybe I'm sick, but I find the whole thing quite funny sometimes.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Funny
  • Sick
  • Fake

• I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Change

• Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Secure
  • Threatened
  • Herself

• I think I've got the best staff in television.

  

  Phil McGraw

• Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

  

  Peter Krause
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Vegas