It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.
If you bet on individuals, instead of the people, you are going to fail.
Is it possible to love someone too much? You bet.
It's never paid to bet against America.
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on. . .
I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.
In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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.
And so to dismiss these homegrown terrorists as boobs, which is one of the terms that was used in one of the New York newspapers after the Miami raid, is true now, but to bet on that is I think a sure way to lose your bank account.
One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.
I understand the horrors of having no insurance, but, believe me, eight hours of sleep and good meals are NOT going to prevent you from getting sick. Don't gamble with your life; it's a stupid bet.
What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.
Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.
To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
You bet your Grannie's Panties I will.
I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.
I'll have to put more earrings on. I bet that someone could analyze me and tell my condition by my earrings.
You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. . . . Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.
I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.