Byron Allen Quotes
I personally knew and worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy hired me to open for him at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when I was a 19-year-old standup comedian, and that's where my fascination with his incredible story began.
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No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
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I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
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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.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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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.
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I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.
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You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Israel is not Vegas, and it will not be.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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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.
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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.
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I love coming to Las Vegas. I've always loved it and always had a good time.
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I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
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One had been dismissed - and subsequently executed - for a foiled assassination attempt on a higher ranking student, a second had been killed in the practice arena, and the third died in his bunk of natural causes - for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
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I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.
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Being a lead role in a play in Vegas? Like, come on! How much bigger can it get?
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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I personally knew and worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy hired me to open for him at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when I was a 19-year-old standup comedian, and that's where my fascination with his incredible story began.
