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I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.

Ben Stein

I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
BEN STEIN

Doubt Ideas Rumor
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
BEN STEIN

Asking Children Stranger
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 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
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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Smart Thinking Wall
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Soul
If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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Devil Dust God Mean Specks
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEIN

Inquiry Lines Scientist
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
BEN STEIN

Fighting Reading Writing
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
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.
BEN STEIN

Media People Personality
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Interest Occupation Thankless
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Helping Matter Others
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
BEN STEIN

Black People Wind
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
BEN STEIN

Anyone Else Long People Person Trying
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.
BEN STEIN

Exertion Responsibility Way

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.

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