There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
BEN STEINI 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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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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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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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.
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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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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.
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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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