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  • I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas. -- Tom Waits
  • Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse. -- Merv Griffin
  • No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. -- Ralph Nader
  • Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. -- Paul Samuelson
  • I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello. -- Norm Crosby
  • Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. -- Oscar Goodman
  • Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment. -- Don Rickles
  • Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. -- Eli Roth
  • Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions. -- Todd Phillips
  • I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one. -- David LaChapelle
  • I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas. -- Dennis Rodman
  • I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues. -- Mike Tyson
  • It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office. -- Paul Samuelson
  • I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs. -- Harland Williams
  • Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess. -- Anatoly Karpov
  • I love Las Vegas. I like that Las Vegas has everything. Everything and anything you want to do, you can do in Las Vegas. -- Drew Carey
  • I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing. -- David Cassidy
  • Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas. -- Michael Mina
  • I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States. -- Steve Wynn
  • Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it. -- Otis Blackwell
  • Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move to Las Vegas and bring my friends and star chefs to open their restaurants at the Venetian, I made the move here. -- Robin Leach
  • The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up. -- Pia Zadora
  • We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings. So I only ate oysters and drank coffee because I didn't want to turn into a mutant. -- Jennifer Rubin
  • In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas. -- J. R. Moehringer
  • I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating. -- Drew Barrymore
  • I love performing in Las Vegas. -- Holly Madison
  • In Las Vegas, nothing ends very well. -- Walter Wykes
  • Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place. -- Eydie Gorme
  • We'd just released a zebra in Las Vegas. -- Rick Riordan
  • Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong. -- Douglas Coupland
  • Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Las Vegas turns women into men and men into idiots. -- Bugsy Siegel
  • I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life. -- Julio Iglesias
  • I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas. -- Juice Newton
  • Las Vegas is the most honest fake city in the world. -- Frank Scoblete
  • I'm very happy with how Jaleo in Las Vegas came together. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society -- Noel Coward
  • Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask. -- Carlos Santana
  • Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas. -- David Roberts
  • I don't like Las Vegas. I'd rather be mountain biking or climbing. -- Greg Brenneman
  • Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans? -- Meg Cabot
  • Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams. -- Concha Buika
  • [On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions. -- Marlene Dietrich
  • Las Vegas, New Mexico has had a lot of great movies shot there. -- Bill Hader
  • Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye. -- Frank Sinatra
  • Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome. -- Hal Rothman
  • I love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles. -- J. Richard Singleton
  • I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city. -- Frank Scoblete
  • Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id. -- John Burdett
  • Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven. -- Evan Esar
  • Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. -- John Burdett
  • [Las Vegas in the early 1960] was thrilling, exciting... I would describe it as very Parisian. -- Debbie Reynolds
  • I love coming to Las Vegas. I've always loved it and always had a good time. -- Ian Ziering
  • The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington. -- Cal Thomas
  • No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend. -- Hal Rothman
  • The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas -- John Warren Kindt
  • I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21. -- Rita Rudner
  • I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs. -- Scott Caan
  • I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth. -- Alissa Nutting
  • Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant. -- Oscar Goodman
  • I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that. -- Norm MacDonald
  • If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out? -- Wesley Pruden
  • I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas. -- Rick Majerus
  • In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas. -- John Van Hamersveld
  • Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness. -- Gia Coppola
  • Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers. -- Jimmy Hoffa
  • Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off. -- Max Lucado
  • Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame. -- Walter Wykes
  • I come home every weekend and I still can't believe I represent Las Vegas in Congress. It's such a kick. -- Shelley Berkley
  • Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early. -- William J. Clinton
  • It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas -- John Warren Kindt
  • Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be. -- Hal Rothman
  • I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller. -- Henny Youngman
  • I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste. -- Mary Jo Putney
  • Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas -- Paul Samuelson
  • With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split. -- Howard Thompson
  • I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
  • I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off. -- Ray Romano
  • The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas. -- Clive James
  • 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
  • Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before. -- Wayne Newton
  • In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game. -- John Ensign
  • Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him. -- Evan Esar
  • I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition. -- Adam Hicks
  • 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 -- Steve Lawrence
  • I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre. -- Rutina Wesley
  • I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas. -- Michael Mina
  • I moved from Minnesota to Las Vegas when I was 13, so I spent my high school years there and did some things I'm not proud of. -- Beth Riesgraf
  • Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas. -- Chuck Close
  • With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year. -- Jon Porter
  • The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head. -- Drew Carey
  • Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization. -- Nicholas Pileggi
  • I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time. -- Betty Who
  • Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing. -- Alissa Nutting
  • I really love Las Vegas. Its, like, my favorite place to be. I love to DJ out there. It is the place to be as a DJ. -- Pauly D
  • I really love Las Vegas. It's, like, my favorite place to be. I love to DJ out there. It is the place to be as a DJ. -- Pauly D
  • For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. -- Neil Postman
  • The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind. -- Brandi Carlile
  • Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash. -- Robert De Niro
  • Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence. -- Hal Rothman
  • Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. -- Jonathan Clements
  • I got a hotel room at New York New York in Las Vegas and I was very happy. They've got that rollercoaster encircling the entire premises, just like Manhattan. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • When i play in Las Vegas I play for money, when I play in Miami I play for holidays but when I play in #India I play for Love -- Axwell
  • Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you. -- Hal Rothman
  • The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy. -- Stanley Ho
  • I was booked into the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas with three other comedians. We all were using the Riviera in-house shampoo, so we all had equal shine and bounce. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold. -- James Nesbitt
  • In Las Vegas, the magnitude is impressive, but the humanity is gone. It feels like you're being intimidated out of your money instead of inviting you to come have this experience. -- Eric Whitacre
  • Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas. -- Wil S. Hylton
  • Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible. -- Peter Beinart
  • [On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do. -- Karen Kijewski
  • I was three years old. I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up by my head and run around the backyard with me. -- Brian Austin Green
  • President Obama flew to a rally in Las Vegas last night. However, he did not visit any of the casinos. You know why? When you're $16 trillion in debt, they don't let you in. -- Jay Leno
  • I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is. -- Eddie Van Halen
  • If we want money weâ??ll go to Las Vegas, if we want an after party weâ??ll go to Miami but if we want to play for love, we still come to India! -- Axwell
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