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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?

Ben Stein

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
BEN STEIN

Goal Pyramids Steps
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
BEN STEIN

Christian Island Religious
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’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
BEN STEIN

Friendly Long People
The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
BEN STEIN

Decide First Getting Self Step Want
I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
BEN STEIN

Smart Thinking Wall
Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
BEN STEIN

Exertion Responsibility Way
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
BEN STEIN

Allies Country Middle East
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
BEN STEIN

Faults Media People
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
BEN STEIN

Black Man Men White
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
BEN STEIN

Ideas Race Racism
It means zero to be against greed.
BEN STEIN

Greed Mean Zero
I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
BEN STEIN

Different Doe Large Loss Money
I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
BEN STEIN

Briefly Economist Training Work
And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
BEN STEIN

Much Progress Since
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEIN

Bed Listening Lying

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