Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.

Let all live as they would die.

I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.

See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.