I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
BEN STEINI thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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.
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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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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
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Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
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I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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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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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
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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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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.
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I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
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