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.
BEN STEINThe poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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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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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.
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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 think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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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.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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