This is how you entrench inequality: We let the poor “invest” in lottery tickets, sports gambling and casinos but not startups. The first three are perennial losers. Startups have returned 15% over the past 50 years.
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Quotes tagged ‘Gambling’
Hustle is something you can bank on. The rest is a game of poker.
Ike Clanton: What is that now? Twelve hands in a row? Holliday, son of a bitch, nobody's that lucky. Doc Holliday: Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game Ike. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!
Vincent Mancini: You like to gamble? Why don't we go to Atlantic City? My town. I'll show you how to gamble. Grace Hamilton: Yeah, but I like to win. How will I know what numbers to pick? Vincent Mancini: Do I look okay like a guy who's gonna lose?
— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Grace Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, imdb.com
'K': This is really somethin.’ Rick Deckard: The whole town was somethin'. One time. Forget your troubles, see a show, gamble a little. Win some money, lose some money. They made money seem like candy.
Life is one big fat bet.
People think I’m a gambler. I’ve never gambled in my life.
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother. I call him Gamblor; and it's time to free your mother from his neon claws.
— Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta, imdb.com
What are we we do, man? I don't want to get thrown out of the hotel. I love the hotel. I wanna marry the hotel and have little gambling-addicted alcoholic kids with it.
[rolls dice at craps table] All right, come on now, baby needs a new pair of shoes, and by baby I do mean me.
It’s better to be disappointed in cards than in love.
— David Shore, Seth Gordon, Pete / Marius, Giovanni Ribisi, imdb.com
Poker was for boys. Bridge, that’s for grownups.
No drinking, no gambling, no premarital sex. Dean, they basically just outlawed 90 percent of your personality.
Shun all vice, especially card playing.
I remember distinctly having eighteen million in front of me and we're playing no limit hold 'em and heads up and the blinds were $10,000 - $25,000. So its a real big game. At any given point, if this guy says all-in, I've got to make a decision for eighteen million dollars.
You're like a pathetic gambler. You're one of those losers in Las Vegas who keeps thinking he's gonna come up with a way to win at blackjack.
They accused me of making a president. Now, I don’t know Mr. Nixon any more than what I read in the newspapers. The closest I ever got to him was seeing him on television. They claim I have 50% of Lebanon’s casinos. Fifty percent of Monte Carlo….Now, how ridiculous can we really get? This is just a…
All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here....We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
Never bet your money on another man's game.
Who’s to say that gamblers don’t really understand it better than anyone else? Isn’t everything worthwhile a gamble? Can’t good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?