quotations about Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is finding the government A-bombs bouncing the greatest tourist lure since the invention of the nickel slot machines.
PERRY KAUFMAN
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"The Best City of Them All: A History of Las Vegas, 1930-1960"
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The brand of Las Vegas is adult freedom, and our campaigns reflect that brand. The 'What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas' is still a wildly popular slogan and lauded as one of the top tourism-related campaigns of all time.
HEIDI HAYES
"Family-friendly Sin City: What does Las Vegas have for kids?", Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 27, 2016
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Las Vegas is the entertainment capital of the world, where sleep is a mere inconvenience interrupting a continuous stream of fun and hedonism, and where everything is bigger, louder, flashier and trashier than anywhere else in the world.
JACKIE STADDON & HILARY WESTON
Fodor's 25 Best Las Vegas
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It shouldn't come as a shock that Las Vegas has a dark side. A secret about the valley -- which really isn't much of a secret if you can decode the messages behind the overly sexualized billboards.
SANDY LOPEZ
"Is Las Vegas a good place to raise a family?", Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 27, 2016
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Las Vegas is like that, a place that resonates in such a way that wouldn't now if the place is real.
IAN ASTBURY
"The Cult's Ian Astbury brings the fire, but can simmer, too", Las Vegas Sun, May 19, 2016
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Las Vegas is like being inside of trashy-fun snow globe.
LINETTE LOPEZ
"I went to the biggest Wall Street party of the year and everyone was miserable", Business Insider, May 16, 2016
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Las Vegas has become, just as Bugsy Siegel dreamed, the American Monte Carlo--without any of the inevitable upper-class baggage of the Riviera casinos. At Monte Carlo there is still the plush mustiness of the nineteenth century noble lions.... There are still Wrong Forks, Deficient Accents, Poor Tailoring, Gauche Displays, Nouveau Richness, Cultural Aridity--concepts unknown in Las Vegas. For the grand debut of Monte Carlo as a resort in 1879 the architect Charles Garnier designed an opera house for the Place du Casino; and Sarah Bernhardt read a symbolic poem. For the debut of Las Vegas as a resort in 1946 Bugsy Siegel hired Abbot and Costello, and there, in a way, you have it all.
TOM WOLFE
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
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Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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Las Vegas and the American Dream: two ideas intertwined like crossed fingers on a bloated corpse.
JONATHAN HEATT
Teaching Snapping Turtles How to Chew Bubblegum
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It's hard to imagine a bigger desert oasis than Las Vegas.
CINNAMON STOMBERGER
"9 great quotes about Las Vegas", Las Vegas Review Journal, Nov. 15, 2013
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Las Vegas is a city built on hopes, dreams, and a little bit of crazy.
MICHAEL MCDONALD
"Las Vegas' New Lights Will Be Powered by Footsteps", The Fiscal Times, March 26, 2016
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Las Vegas is known for discarding its past, like most people discard clothing, imploding buildings with little care for their historic value.
PAUL W. PAPA
It Happened in Las Vegas: Remarkable Events that Shaped History
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Las Vegas has changed a lot over the years. It's no longer a mob-controlled adult play-land. Now it's a corporate, family-friendly place where no one bats an eyelid when some schmuck pushes his kid's stroller through the craps tables at 1 a.m. I'm not sure what they call Family Services folks here, but they're probably busy playing Keno anyway.
BRIAN SACK
Banterist, Jun. 15, 2006
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Las Vegas marks itself out by nothingness. All the negative descriptions that can generally be used in labelling a city apply to it, for its absence of consistency actually makes its existence doubtful: no man's land, waste ground, non-place, ghost town, urban simulacrum, nowhere city, etc. For us it is Zeropolis, the non-city which is the very first city, just as zero is the very first number. The nothing that counts, the nothingness of neon.
BRUCE BEGOUT
Zeropolis
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Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Las Vegas is the latest travel company to let travellers have a taste of a destination or experience via virtual reality before they go. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has released an application providing travelers with a glimpse of what happens in Vegas. The Virtual Reality Companion app, available for both Apple and Android devices, offers 12 Las Vegas clips that can be viewed on a smartphone or using a virtual reality device such as Google Cardboard or Oculus.
LINDA FOX
"What happens in Las Vegas is now virtual", Tnooz, March 17, 2016
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Vegas has a knack for resilience and reinvention that even vintage-era Madonna might envy: The Strip is unrecognizable from my first trip there in the nineties, when I overnighted at the soon-to-be-demolished Sands Hotel. It adds and subtracts attractions with the fluency of a math prodigy.
MARK ELLWOOD
"Why It's Okay to Love Las Vegas", Condé Nast Traveler, March 15, 2016
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Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.
HAL ROTHMAN
"The Shape of the City -- Money and the Visual Face of Las Vegas", Stripping Las Vegas: A Contextual Review of Casino Resort Architecture
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Let's go back 20 years, to my first few trips to Sin City. Back then, genuine resorts were pretty thin on the ground, and the Vegas experience was very different. The emphasis wasn't on spectacular hotel rooms and wildly extravagant public spaces. It was more about providing facilities so gamblers could cover their basic hierarchy of needs -- bed, gambling, boozing and getting out of the desert heat.
PAUL SCULPHER
"Las Vegas risks pricing itself out of the market", Gambling Insider, March 23, 2016
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Las Vegas is the new Florida. It's a retirement destination that's growing in popularity. Age-restricted housing is springing up. Top flight medical facilities are expanding. The University of Nevada -- Las Vegas is working on building a medical school. There's even a brand new downtown.
RICH JOHNSON
"Vegas ego trip: Life outside The Strip", Washington's Top News, April 2, 2016
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