When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
BEN STEINI agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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