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" Nothing looks as great on videotape as Hollywood after a rain. "

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" The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams. "

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" I try to tell the story, always. I do not want to be part of it. "

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" I am the most unlikely star in the world. "

" People know I'll be sensational, not scandalous. There's a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations. "

" It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. "

" Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move to Las Vegas and bring my friends and star chefs to open their restaurants at the Venetian, I made the move here. "

" There has always been something about the biggest, the wealthiest, the best-known, the most prestigious that has appealed to me. It's always seemed to me that that is what people want to know about. "

" There's no point in retiring because there's no fun in retiring. "

" Robin Leach is a guy who, when he has the time, goes quietly to his house in Connecticut and sits looking into the fire with a good glass of red wine in his hand. And when I wake up in the morning, I wink at myself because I like me - I know who I am. "

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" I'm a big baller. "

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" It greatly upsets me when I'm called a journalistic toad - I mean, I am a journalist! "

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