Mitch Hedberg Quotes

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Mitch Hedberg

• Sitting
• Gambling
• Blackjack

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

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Should
  • Presidential
  • Vegas

• I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Sitting

• When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

  

  Donald Glover
  • Empty
  • Glasses
  • Sitting

• And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • River
  • Wait
  • Sitting

• It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

  

  Len Wein
  • Side
  • Sitting
  • Desk

• When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess –- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let's get to work.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Advantage
  • Online
  • Gambling

• Quality doesn't improve by sitting on things.

  

  Val Logsdon Fitch
  • Quality
  • Sitting

• A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Christian
  • Drinking
  • Weekend

• Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Worried
  • Sitting
  • Phones

• I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Horse
  • Gun
  • Gambling

• It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Sitting
  • Reactions

• I thought when I get to 70, I would be sitting on the ranch and doing less, and I'm doing more. I would say, with all things equal, five more years.

  

  Gary Player
  • Sitting
  • Ranch

• I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Capable
  • Sitting
  • Bench

• Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Death
  • Lies
  • Understand

• It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Night
  • Drinking
  • Gambling

• I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Crazy
  • Chances
  • Gambling

• Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

  

  Julia Butterfly Hill
  • Society
  • Tree
  • Sitting

• I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Love
  • Growing

• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Parents

• Just you wait. Papa Koschei is coming, coming, coming, over the hills on his red horse and he's got bells on his boots and a ring in his poket and he knows your name, Marya Morevna.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Knows
  • Wait
  • Coming

• People don't truly respond to something until they see the direct consequences.

  

  Moby
  • People
  • Consequence

• I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

  

  Mitch Hedberg
  • Sitting
  • Gambling
  • Blackjack