He was gambling, taking a a lot of risks. You go, 'Oh no don't do it,' and 'Oh, good. People think it's going to be a dumb play but when you make an out, you got a standing ovation.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
People bet all the time in every aspect of life, and most of that is legal gambling. If you're trying to say our sport has a problem with it, I don't think it does.
This special interest incentive would be a disgrace. With budget deficits growing to historic levels, we need to make sure tax dollars are going to those who truly need the government's help ... We trust you will do the right thing and make sure federal resources go to the poor, the needy and the vulnerable and not the gambling interests who already have insurance to cover catastrophic events like hurricanes.
She probably would have gone back out there tonight. But why risk it at this point in time To put her back out there would have been a big gamble.
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Everybody overlooked Francisco. But she knew she had it in her. She was tired of hearing about Gamble and Denson, Gamble and Denson.
For the great, great percentage of the American people who gamble, it's a recreation. And it's a recreation that they have under control.
I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
We took a gamble on Johnson and he dogged it. We risked a lot of money to do it, and he didn't come through. But now Sam Peter is in that situation, too. We've got a lot of other good, young fighters. But Sam Peter is our franchise fighter, a guy who can really turn our company around, and this is the single most important fight we've had since Johnson-Ruiz.
Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.
You can build a big metro economy purely out of high-level services. You get people there with gambling, then rope them into consuming other things.
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
An institutional money manager was not going to make a gamble today to buy it or sell it, I would think, until something concrete comes out or the price moves too high or too low.
If you look at who gets a competitive advantage -- companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Procter Gamble, Gillette -- the big global companies certainly are positioned very well to not have an impact from this interest rate increase. Primarily overseas is their growth market so any slowing here won't affect them.
People don't say I think I'll take a couple of hundred bucks and go gamble,' ... They say, Let's go out to dinner,' or, Let's go to the movies,' or both, and then they also visit the casino.
You know, they're a gambling pressure team. Eric just got a little careless a couple times.
There is a lot of work happening on that thing which is not consistent with a gambling casino.
We took a gamble at bringing Peter in. The extent of his injury was probably more than we thought it was. He was a borderline. But we did know eventually he would be OK.
Rick Blaine How can you close me up On what grounds Capt. Renault I'm shocked ... shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. Croupier Your winnings, sir. Capt. Renault Oh, thank you ... very much. Everybody out at once.
The cardinal rule in baseball is you don't gamble. It's been posted in every clubhouse since 1927.
We were working to shut down a gambling casino, and I make no apologies.
Yes, it's a bit of a gamble that people are going to respond to the album, but I think that grunge has run its course. That's not to say our music is going to be huge today, but we have a much bigger chance, because people will be more open-minded.
It was a big gamble, ... We were pretty ignorant. We didn't really know what our market was at that time, or what it would take to succeed.
Of the six-month hiatus from The Brothers Grimm, ... It was a gamble. But it was a great relief to go off to do something else. You get so nonobjective at the end there. When I came back to London, they asked me to finish 'Grimm' the way I wanted to, and in the interim, I'd actually seen a few things we could do to improve it. The film benefited from that gap.
It's the same thing as going to a casino, ... Sometimes you lose. Anybody in the shrimping business is taking a gamble.
To pull that away requires creating a whole new life. There isn't any medication that is going to do that for them. There are so many personal and social things. You are basically creating a whole new life. You've been living a lie for years. You've been living under enormous amounts of stress, even if you all of a sudden stop the gambling, that's essential, but that just allows you to proceed with everything else you have to do.
It's an unfortunate consequence of American history. Gambling is exactly like demon rum was 75 years ago when the temperance movement was agitating. Once you demonize something, it becomes difficult to look at it in any rational way.
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us areincapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense offreedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To befree is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.
A comprehensive plan would address the issue of whether if we have gambling and we have casinos, would we limit it to the Indians or would we open it up to some type of license where other businesses could have gambling.
I can tell you that gambling was never an issue in our locker room. J.R. (Jeremy Roenick) admitted he was gambling. That guy makes a lot of money, but that doesn't make it right.
Fifteen years ago, the negative was huge. They talked about organized crime. They talked about how gambling would attract prostitution. It would bring in the wrong kinds of tourists. Now it is better than 2-to-1 on the positive side.
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
It is a great skill and it is not gambling. Most people do not have the strength to sit and wait for cards.
I am not willing to turn a blind eye to this and have agreed with the Gambling Commission that we should crack down on advertisers and publishers who knowingly break the law.
For the record, it is certainly the case that there needs to be prize consideration for gambling, ... Clearly, if it is legal in the state and there is no prize offered, I can't see why anyone would consider it gambling. We are not attempting to make illegal by this legislation fantasy sports that would be legal in states. I'm pleased that the previous opposition has been removed.
I'm not a fan of gambling, but I didn't bring gambling to Pittsburgh. This is the only plan that makes sense for Pittsburgh.
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
You'd be hard-pressed to go to any gambling conference, any boardroom of any company and not find people conversant or knowledgeable about what is going on in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is it right now.
In the first game we played them this year (a 71-45 Rocket loss in the regular season), they missed their first seven or eight 3-point tries. That's the gamble against Worthington Christian. When they are on, they are on, and they didn't miss too many tonight.
Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things be an alcoholic be a drug offender beat their wife or husband or gamble. I hope they would gamble.
With budget deficits growing to historic levels, we need to make sure tax dollars are going to those who truly need the government's help, ... Tax beaks for the gambling industry do not make sense.
The one-page, handwritten suicide note found on the kitchen counter indicated he can no longer keep going, that it had been over 10 years since he started gambling, that there was nothing more destructive than gambling, that it destroyed his life, ... He asks for forgiveness.
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
America is on a gambling binge. The more available and accessible it becomes, the more gambling is acceptable to people. But shouldn't government be encouraging people to save their money instead of encouraging them to gamble