Las Vegas Quotes
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Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.
Hal Rothman
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No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.
Hal Rothman
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The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.
Hal Rothman
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Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.
Hal Rothman
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Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.
Hal Rothman
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Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.
Eydie Gorme
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It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.
Harry Markowitz
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In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.
Hal Rothman
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Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.
Hal Rothman
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Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.
Evan Esar
