spiral

 

"A victim mentality is the ingenious cloak of self-betrayal. The character never develops. The story never ends - an infinite loop of personal hell."
- J. Mike Fields

from disruptor to incumbent

Fraud

long-lived without alcohol

 1970s babysitter here.

urgent

"Appear as though you're late for a train."
- Peter O'Toole's acting advice

a loser?

The Man Who Built Modern Las Vegas

Part 1 Part 2

early hospitality

great art is inexplicable

Sinatra sings Mrs. Robinson

death penalty

JFK's contribution

no tongue twerking

skeptic converted

 

Why some Mensans pick low status work

Mathew 5.5: The meek shall inherit the earth.

maintained a 9-5 schedule

nostalgia

 

ageism or routine stupidity?

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

- Dan Quayle was born on February 4, 1947. He made this comment during a speech on May 19, 1989, when he was 42 years old.

inspired by Churchill

 

prodigy

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.'
- Blaise Pascal [1623-1662]

empire treachery

 

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom where he lost the initial thousand page draft on a train.

consistently the best vegas option

 

may shortly lose status as most corrupt administration

On being elected President: "I am not fit for this office and never should have been here. Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little."

- Warren G. Harding [1865-1923]

anachronistic

 

on acting

 

"I become someone else because I'm very insecure."
- Billy Dee Williams [born 1937]

hooked

"Some read for pleasure, which is innocent; others read for instruction, which is praiseworthy; yet still others read out of habit, which is neither innocent nor praiseworthy."

- Somerset Maugham [1874-1965]

20%

 

To Insure Promptness [TIPs]

when the afternoon is too late

 

naive mania

 

no time for death

"If you can dream it, you can do it. I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else."

- Enzo Ferrari [1898-1988]