"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."

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Source : Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.25, Routledge

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“I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.”
“I studied Sanskrit for many years, and I've got all the coursework for my Ph.D. And a lot of what's going on in American Yoga is just made-up stuff. Smart people, even good people, Western therapists, Yoga therapists and other things, Western healthcare practitioners who love Asana and say, "Let's make up yoga therapy."”
“Jesus is never bored in his relationship with you.”
“I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.”
“Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.176, Vintage
“One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about.”
“What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on the contrary, he exists only on the products of the industrious class; and that he can consume nothing that has not been taken from the producers.”
“Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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