The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
BEN STEIN
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I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
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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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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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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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Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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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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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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