You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
BEN STEINI think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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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.
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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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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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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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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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