George Raft famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.
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I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.
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Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad.
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I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.
-- George Raft
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My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.
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A camel is a horse designed by committee.
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Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.
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You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
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You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
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I don't like inherited wealth.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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