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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
las-vegas drug fear-and-loathing
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 a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people. Jon Tester
decisions evaluation forward move ongoing programs
Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable. Stewart Tuttle
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Decisions must be made that are very hard, Karen Hughes
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An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right. Elbert Hubbard
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The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science. Michelle Gorman
decisions felt issue mind passionate
I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about. Mary Chapman
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The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging. John Lemme
decision logically
Now I have to take a decision and logically that decision is going to be to continue. Inaki Saez
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Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure. John Lemme
sound complicated rich
I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich. Brian Eno
sound stories
One story sounds good until another is told Aesop
sound tin determined
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle. Aneurin Bevan
sound language realizing
Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language. Renata Adler
sound enough
Enough of words. Come to me without a sound. Rumi
sound ifs
I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant. Neil Gaiman
soundtracks popular-music
Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life. Martin Scorsese
sound impossible conditions
It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally. John Wooden
sound endless soulless
Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest. John Ruskin