The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
BEN STEINI am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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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.
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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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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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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.
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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 have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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