Calvin Ayre quotes

“Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.”
-- Calvin Ayre

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“Our advertising partnership with Allegiant Air is a natural fit for us. Branding encompasses everything from good customer service to strategic advertising positioning and targeting. This in-air branding exercise will allow us to target a specific player demographic, while continuing to expand the presence of our brand throughout the continental United States.”
-- Calvin Ayre

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“I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, .. Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.”
-- Calvin Ayre

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“Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.”
-- Calvin Ayre

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“Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.”

“Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible”

“[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.”

“I've never needed government to hold my hand.”

Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011

“It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.”

“It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'”

“The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.”

“I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.”

“It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion,”

“When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.”