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"There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning."
"With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know."
"Still humping the American Dream"
"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."
"I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life."
"A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me."
"Branson, Missouri, is Vegas for people with no teeth."
"I have a thing about underwear. I have to wear thongs. Since I was a showgirl in Las Vegas, and I was wearing G-strings all the time, I got this thing where I cannot stand to have on regular underwear. It drives me out of my mind."
"The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture"
"Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification."
"I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas"
"I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope, and she's marvelous."
"Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops."
"I think men like the boobie shows. Vegas will always be Vegas."
"[Las Vegas in the early 1960] was thrilling, exciting... I would describe it as very Parisian."
"Years ago nudity was not done in the United States. But during that late 1950s era in Vegas it began at the Tropicana, and spread to the other venues. Now the showgirls are going away again and Cirque du Soleil, the magic acts and the animal acts reign in Las Vegas. But I don't think you'll completely lose the boobie shows."
"Vegas will always be Vegas."
"When I lived in Las Vegas, I was meeting everybody: Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones - we won't go there - but all these people that were working in Vegas a million years ago, way before I was Elvira."
"Disneyland is Vegas for children."
"Disney is one of the best hotel companies in the world. Yet they have never and will never open a casino on the Vegas strip."
