I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
BEN STEINI 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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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.
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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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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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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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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.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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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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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.
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