When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.
Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run
I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.
Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.
Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
If you're addicted to gambling, you know where to go to gamble. So, if you have a condition where you're addicted to sex, you know where other that are looking for the same thing are going.
Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy
Donald Trump he wanted casino gambling in Florida. Yes, you did.
Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie. '
If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit
You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.
You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn`t get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that`s not - I`m not going to be bought by anyone.
There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
She got to go to heaven four days early.
Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.