I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
BEN STEINEmperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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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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The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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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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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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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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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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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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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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