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I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.


Mitch Hedberg
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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.
Spencer Bachus
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Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.
Spencer Bachus
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
Vikram Seth
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The more things you make from scratch, the less expensive and usually healthier and tastier.


Gil Marks
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I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
Jonathan Lethem
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Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.


Mitch Daniels
I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.
Scott Rudin
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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.


Humphry Davy
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Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.


Andrew Young
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I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.
Nikki Sixx
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.
Denis Leary
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Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.
Stanley Crouch
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I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
Lydia Davis
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Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.


Josh Billings
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.


Katrina Kaif
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers