It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
BEN STEINYou can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Science leads you to killing people.
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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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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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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.
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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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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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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
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