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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.

Ben Stein

Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
BEN STEIN

Anyone Else Long People Person Trying
The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
BEN STEIN

Double Real Stand Star Stunt
Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
BEN STEIN

Buisness Car Home Loan Trying
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
BEN STEIN

Feelings Little Thinking
I 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.
BEN STEIN

Wall Writing Years
I am scared of running out of money.
BEN STEIN

Money Running Scared
It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
BEN STEIN

Better Hope Hopeful Inspirational
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.
BEN STEIN

Ghetto Merry Christmas Thinking
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEIN

Bed Listening Lying
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?
BEN STEIN

Country Evil Thinking
The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
BEN STEIN

Causes Community Gone
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
BEN STEIN

Egg Insane Quantity Shopping
Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
BEN STEIN

Congress Court Sparks
I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
BEN STEIN

Best Fun Jobs More Wizard
Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
BEN STEIN

Home Night Sleep
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEIN

Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace

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’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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