Las Vegas and the American Dream: two ideas intertwined like crossed fingers on a bloated corpse.
Jonathan Heatt
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I love Las Vegas. I like that Las Vegas has everything. Everything and anything you want to do, you ...
DREW CAREY [LAS VEGAS, NV, United States (UPI) --] American Idol ... kink in his intestines.
BO BICE Once we reach Las Vegas the game faces come on.
ART MCMASTER It's like a roulette wheel you bet on in Las Vegas. It's an agonizing decision.
UWE REINHARDT We are going to make Las Vegas Motor Speedway the greatest speedway in the world. Las Vegas is all a...
BRUTON SMITH Las Vegas is all about glitz and glamour. This speedway will be as spectacular as anything on the La...
BRUTON SMITH Historically and also the current outlook is for Las Vegas and Orlando to be neck and neck among Ame...
CHRIS MCGINNIS Las Vegas and condo-hotels are a perfect fit. This concept is ideal for people who frequent Las Vega...
JACK CHRISTIE Las Vegas is like no other city in the world and has been on the top of W's development strategy for...
ROSS KLEIN Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.
TODD PHILLIPS What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas ... but that doesn’t matter when you live there.
MICHELLE MADOW Certainly North Las Vegas brings a lot more to Las Vegas than it would have five years ago.
DONNA GRADY There are dramatic numbers of adjustments on a seasonal basis going in and out of a tourist destinat...
DEAN BREEST Exposure at another event outside Las Vegas really raised the profile and awareness of the shopping ...
TERRY JICINSKY This speaks very well of Las Vegas. It shows Las Vegas remains in the forefront of people's minds.
TERRY JICINSKY Las Vegas is hot, Planet Hollywood is hot and I wanted to be part of the newest, hottest resort in L...
PARIS HILTON Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.
DAVID ROBERTS Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.
MERV GRIFFIN Las Vegas honors women - Celine Dion, Bette Midler, Britney Spears. I love that Las Vegas celebrates...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
DAVID LACHAPELLE Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
JOHNNY DEPP Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
MONTY PYTHON Las Vegas! We've been waiting on this market because we want to do it right. The Vegas/Macau connect...
TED O'CONNOR Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter an...
ALISTAIR COOKE I was coming back on a plane from [Las Vegas] and I kept putting something down and scratching it ou...
JIM CALHOUN I can't overestimate how important Las Vegas is becoming in setting trends.
CHRIS JONES It's totally contradictory, but so is Las Vegas. We've always had this contradictory set of images a...
MICHAEL GREEN Las Vegas is a unique place to represent. For one thing, most everybody is shipped in from different...
KURT BUSCH He can't talk about bribes of anybody in Las Vegas, period.
DOMINIC GENTILE It turned out we practically had to rebuild the car. It's a long drive to Las Vegas and I don't thin...
TERRY ADAMS We're very excited about downtown Las Vegas.
VIRGINIA PERKINS In a headline grabbing market like Las Vegas, being under construction means a lot. You hear so much...
BEA GOODWIN We are definitely slowing down and charging a lot more for it. We are out of Las Vegas. We are very ...
BRIAN HARRIS Las Vegas has never been hotter, which shows in the gaming numbers through the end of the year. The ...
BRIAN GORDON All three factors are contributing to the deceleration in demand for Las Vegas (as a destination).
BRIAN GORDON But G2E, with 700 exhibitors, shows it's an open industry. Las Vegas has thrived on openness and we ...
BILL THOMPSON I like to say that the good that happens in Las Vegas stays here, ... The sad thing is that a lot of...
EDWARD ANDERSON Hopefully, it will bring some people who have seen the exhibit in New York to Las Vegas, and people ...
THOMAS KRENS We can't afford a Las Vegas wedding.
BILL SCRANTON I believe it costs more to produce a show in Las Vegas than on Broadway. But I also see the day when...
FRANCO DRAGONE We're only an hour's flight from Denver and Minneapolis and we feel we can offer customers a Las Veg...
GAYE GULLO Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and ...
MICHAEL MINA The Las Vegas market continues to motor along and generate solid business levels for operators. Tren...
DAVID KATZ Will she wind up in a deal in Las Vegas? You know, Vegas has surprised a lot of people. I wouldn't c...
JACK WISHNA I've got my fingers crossed (that) the worst of it is over.
BOB SCHRIEBER We're all keeping our fingers crossed.
OSCAR GOODMAN I'd rather be in Las Vegas.
CRAIG KARGES We could not ignore Las Vegas.
GARY MACHABEE I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests...
MICHAEL MINA I don't like Las Vegas. I'd rather be mountain biking or climbing.
GREG BRENNEMAN The field of development in Las Vegas is competitive right now, but we like our chances.
BOB BOUGHNER We ran eighth the first night and second the second night and started 20th. Between Texas and (Las V...
KEN SCHRADER Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
DON RICKLES He expressed his love and interest in Las Vegas,
OSCAR GOODMAN We believe most investors will focus on the softness in the Las Vegas locals market.
CELESTE BROWN This is absolutely imperative to the continued growth of Las Vegas. Without such a mode of transport...
ANDREW ZARNETT We've commented several times on our disappointment with the lack of a clear and definite redevelopm...
WILLIAM SCHMITT The people who say New York never sleeps must have never visited Las Vegas.
MICHELLE MADOW Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.
ELI ROTH I'm from Las Vegas and all my tricks are magic.
MIKE ROSS They have it in New York City, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I just felt Albany needed a place like thi...
ALICE YIP When instant messaging is like Las Vegas, with all kinds of advertising banners, it's very distracti...
GREG STERLING This feels great, ... especially since we got to do it here in Las Vegas where Ken and his family li...
GREG ANDERSON The Tropicana is just not competitive anymore given the growth of Las Vegas.
JOHN MAXWELL I will see everyone back here on New Year's Eve when I officially open Club Paris in Las Vegas and O...
PARIS HILTON There are excellent public schools (in Las Vegas) and it is no secret that the public schools in wea...
MICHAEL GREEN After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's ...
ELISABETH SHUE Our location will take full advantage of the I-15, St. Rose Parkway, and Las Vegas Boulevard corrido...
GARRY GOETT We'll see what the car count is when we get to Rockingham, but I think Las Vegas will be a full fiel...
TOMMY BALDWIN Las Vegas is like no other city in the world and has been on the top of W's development strategy for...
ROSS KLEIN We are thrilled to be able to reveal to Las Vegas our plans for the new Planet Hollywood Resort & Ca...
ROBERT EARL Las Vegas is the place all of us wanted to go. For the first week of the tournament there's nonstop ...
THOMAS WHITE Throughout its history, Las Vegas has been transformed repeatedly by a series of significant develop...
TERRY LANNI I am kind of upset about Miss America being held in Las Vegas. I just don't want the image of Las Ve...
DEBBIE MILES So you have a person who is basically on vacation in Las Vegas for a week and is being paid and not ...
DENNIS CURTIN Las Vegas, for example, has millions of dollars to spend on one TV commercial. We don't have that ki...
VANESSA WELTER It took 75 years for Las Vegas to emerge as an international destination. Our intention is to replic...
WILLIAM WEIDNER One thing I expect from Las Vegas is never expect anything because it's different every time you sho...
BRIAN CARLSON We started out small when Las Vegas was only 450,000 in population. Now it's at 2 million and we rod...
BOB WENGEL Ideally, it would be a track in Las Vegas, obtained from the 'Strip,' the road with all the most imp...
BERNIE ECCLESTONE Wayne Newton has brought a lot of smiles and laughter to Las Vegas for the last 40 years. It's great...
ROB STILLWELL Las Vegas is the style of track where we run the best.
MARK MARTIN We attended the inaugural Las Vegas Market in July 2005 and we were very impressed with the large nu...
DOUG BASSETT They're pure showgirl birds, a touch of Las Vegas maybe. That's pure Julie stuff.
DAVID KNEUSS Condos have certainly gone nuts in this market. Las Vegas joins some of the Florida markets as a pos...
GREG WILLETT If, in fact, Las Vegas gets the game, it'd be the biggest event since Elvis.
GAVIN MALOOF There's a $100 billion bet every year and only one percent of that is bet in Las Vegas. Where do you...
FREDDY HARRIS We're the largest carrier at Midway, the largest carrier in California, the largest in Phoenix and L...
GARY KELLY We've grown too big, too quickly. This isn't Las Vegas, it's Manchester.
ED OSBORNE The opening of the first new resort on the Las Vegas Strip in five years obviously had an impact.
FRANK STRESHLEY We're also making sure that Las Vegas understands.
JAMES TEGNELIA First they said New Jersey, and then I heard later on it was Florida. I heard it was Las Vegas. I he...
IRMA GOMEZ I'm happy that I won, especially in Las Vegas, it is an unbelievable city. I was serving extremely w...
IVO KARLOVIC We've been on a honeymoon for more than a year here in Las Vegas and we haven't got pregnant yet. We...
HUGH RENNER Whatever you do in Las Vegas is so big, so fast. What you've accomplished in three years would take ...
KAREN CRAIG We had a couple of good rescues. We had a guy from Las Vegas maybe he learned to surf in a wave p...
KARL TALLMAN Las Vegas really never came far from the middle of the pack, it never really bubbled up.
JOSHUA HERMAN The idea here was never to allow Las Vegas or any other non-Indian casinos to get a foothold in stat...
JEFF BENEDICT We're nearly ready for the new season, and we're looking forward to the test at Las Vegas. With refr...
JOE AUER Bob Boughner did for Atlantic City what Steve Wynn did for the Las Vegas Strip in 1989.
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And these have smaller sti...
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JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him.
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT