Dean Martin
Singer
"When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table."
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Gambling
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Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"The dice of Zeus always fall luckily."
Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it."
Steven Wright
Comedian
"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."
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"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."
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"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."
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"Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability."
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"I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot."
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"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake."
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"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck."
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"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."
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"The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy ."
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"Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing."
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"Shallow men believe in luck."
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"For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth."
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"Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily."
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"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing."
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"If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog."
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"Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."
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"The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice."
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"I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself."
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"Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world."
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"We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education."
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"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
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