You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEINAmericans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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