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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating. Drew Barrymore
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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. Nicholas Pileggi
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I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory. Greg Fitzsimmons
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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. Hunter S. Thompson
las-vegas long littles
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. Hunter S. Thompson
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. Hunter S. Thompson
las-vegas sky top-down
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. Hunter S. Thompson
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers. Sarah Vowell
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As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison. Jose Maria
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Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition. Robert Clarke
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Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective. Alphonso Jackson
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Some people, you can tell if they want it bad. He always was a kid who wanted to be a good player. He had that will and desire to play. Everyone around the pool room saw that. Joe Browne
desire world wonder
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world. C. S. Lewis
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It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going. Janet Guthrie
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
desire doe surprise
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire. Charles R. Swindoll
desire limits impossible
It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions. Arthur Schopenhauer
inability needs openness
...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point. Stephen King
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He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him. Ivo Daalder