When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
BEN STEINEvery soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
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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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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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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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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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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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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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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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