"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."

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Source : Nicholas Pileggi (2016). “Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas”, p.47, Open Road Media

Nicholas Pileggi

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“The government should be actively enforcing the high road.”
“It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.”
“The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.”
“The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.”
“I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.”
“I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.”

Source : Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.8, Penguin
“We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.”

Source : "Robot-To-Robot Chat Yields Curious Conversation". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2011.
“Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.”

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