Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
BEN STEINAs to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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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 don’t consider an actor a star if he’s paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they’re not role models.
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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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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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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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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.
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