Casinos Quote by Al Alvarez Download Open image “The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.” — Al Alvarez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Casinos Gambling Games Language Looks Money
I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be,… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
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One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Suicide is, after all, the result of a choice. However impulsive the action and confused the motives, at the moment when a man finally… — Al Álvarez Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos.… — Robert Irvine Copy Share Image
You can try to trick the people and come out wearing a fedora and a tuxedo but that's not me. I was born in… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of… — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image
I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas. — Rick Majerus Copy Share Image
Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
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I've been a fan of Mads since the “Casino Royale” movie. I really sat up and paid attention to him. I was like, “Who… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
