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"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."
"Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature."
"There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble."
"There's an electrical thing about movies."
"I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night."
"Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed."
"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, which is fun and entertaining."
"I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know."
"Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet."
"Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another."
"He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone."
"Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius."
"There is no gambling like politics."
"But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets."
"In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced."
"Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good."
"Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind."
"This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely."
"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."