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

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

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

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.

Ideas are easy

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

When the path ignites a soul, there's no remaining in place. The foot touches ground, but not for long.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.