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.
BEN STEINFathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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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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I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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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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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
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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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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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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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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.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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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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I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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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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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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