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Ben Stein

My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
BEN STEIN

Airplane Country Lying Virginia
I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
BEN STEIN

Grateful Gratitude Rich
I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
BEN STEIN

Best Fun Jobs More Wizard
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 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.
BEN STEIN

Families Military Taken Thinking
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
BEN STEIN

Christian Island Religious
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
It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
BEN STEIN

America Beautiful Sleep
I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
BEN STEIN

Issues Numbers Thinking
It’s about how Darwin ‘s theory – supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus – led to the murder of millions of innocent people.
BEN STEIN

Innocent Manner Million Murder People Theory
No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN

Action Just One Yourself
I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
BEN STEIN

Car Moving Sleep
Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
BEN STEIN

Congress Court Sparks
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
BEN STEIN

Ideas Race Racism
I am scared of running out of money.
BEN STEIN

Money Running Scared
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
BEN STEIN

Interest Occupation Thankless

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