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The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

Ben Stein

I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
BEN STEIN

Briefly Economist Training Work
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
BEN STEIN

Anyone Else Long People Person Trying
That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
BEN STEIN

Beyond Horrifying Just Opinion Science
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
BEN STEIN

League Media Wife
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.
BEN STEIN

Different Doe Large Loss Money
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
BEN STEIN

Alive Complexes Humans
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.
BEN STEIN

Children Crush Parenting
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEIN

Bed Listening Lying
It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
BEN STEIN

Determination Inspirational Success
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.
BEN STEIN

Games Real Sitting Stretch
Science leads you to killing people.
BEN STEIN

Killing People Religion
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.
BEN STEIN

Trying Upset Winning
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
BEN STEIN

Parent People Successful
I am scared of running out of money.
BEN STEIN

Money Running Scared
It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
BEN STEIN

America Beautiful Sleep
Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
BEN STEIN

Law Matter Physics

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