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.
BEN STEINI think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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No one will do it for you.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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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 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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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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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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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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