Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
BEN STEINI 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I don’t consider an actor a star if he’s paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they’re not role models.
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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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My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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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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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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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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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 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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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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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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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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