I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
BEN STEINIt is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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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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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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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.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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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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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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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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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 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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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