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It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

Ben Stein

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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Failure Moving Time
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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Parent People Successful
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Faults Media People
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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Christian Island Religious
My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
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Days Hollywood Perfect Vacation
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Helping Matter Others
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.
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Doubt Ideas Rumor
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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Sacrifice Thank You Thanksgiving
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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Allies Country Middle East
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
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Gratitude Laughter relief
Science leads you to killing people.
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Killing People Religion
Americans 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.
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Home May Years
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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Beautiful Men Years
Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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Military Morning Stars
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.
BEN STEIN

Citizens Paradoxical Prove
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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Hollywood Men Stories

It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

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