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.
BEN STEINI 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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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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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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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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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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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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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
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