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 STEINThe American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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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 am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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As 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.
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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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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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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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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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