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Quotes about gambler (16 Quotes)
I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.
The whore and gambler, by the state licensed, build that nation's fate. The harlot's cry from street to street shall weave England's winding sheet.
They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
The classic way to force other nations to do what they did not want to used to be war. Today there is a much bigger payoff in 'getting others to want what you want,' and that has to do with 'cultural attraction,' 'ideology' and 'agenda setting.' Think of the U. S. as a gambler who, can play simultaneously at every table that mattersand with more chips than anybody else. It is the largest economy, the fastest-running job machine and the world's biggest exporter. Whichever heap you choose, America sits on top of it.
The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
The excitement that a gambler feels when making a bet is equal to the amount he might win times the probability of winning it.
There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.
Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.
Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.