Gambling Quotes
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
Ralph Nader
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
Fisher Stevens
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Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
Rita Mae Brown
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
Walter Kirn
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The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained...
Heber J. Grant
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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
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.
Larry Merchant
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
Gary Bettman
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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
Tom Stoppard
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Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
M. John Harrison
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I'm not a fan of gambling, but I didn't bring gambling to Pittsburgh. This is the only plan that makes sense for Pittsburgh.
Lynn Swann
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In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
E. V. Lucas
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Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.
Ben Affleck
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I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.
Rene Russo
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We never talk about gambling around my house.
Doyle Brunson
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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
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I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.
Artie Lange
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You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'
Artie Lange
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I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.
Fabian Perez
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
Wilson Mizner
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If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.
William C. Brown