I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
BEN STEINWe are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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It means zero to be against greed.
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The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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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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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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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
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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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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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I am scared of running out of 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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