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I wouldn't see myself as a gambler.
I'm a gambler and love slot machines.
A successful designer must be a gambler.
I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.
There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all.
I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.
Some people are just more prepared to take risks than others. I grew up a gambler. That's my name: Maverick.
The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning 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.
The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.
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.
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.
There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices.
In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.
I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair.
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.
My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.
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.
I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.
Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of possibly still managing whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I think, secretly, I might even get a buzz out of it. Maybe I crave the adrenalin like some sort of crazy gambler high on risking everything on the turn of a card.
March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.
