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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

Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
BEN STEIN

Compassion Empathy People
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
I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
BEN STEIN

Boys Males Surprise
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEIN

Bed Listening Lying
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 thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
BEN STEIN

Sacrifice Thank You Thanksgiving
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
BEN STEIN

Dad Father Sleep Smart
I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
BEN STEIN

Doubt Ideas Rumor
My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
BEN STEIN

Days Hollywood Perfect Vacation
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
BEN STEIN

League Media Wife
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
We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
BEN STEIN

Country Debt Enslave Everyone Selling Service World
It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
BEN STEIN

Better Hope Hopeful Inspirational
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
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.
BEN STEIN

Allow Harmonize Personality Protect
I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
BEN STEIN

Country Human Vote
Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
BEN STEIN

Law Matter Physics
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEIN

Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEIN

Life Motivational Relationship
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
Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
BEN STEIN

Military Morning Stars
It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
BEN STEIN

Determination Inspirational Success
A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
BEN STEIN

Corporations Pension Plans Responsibility
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEIN

Inquiry Lines Scientist
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
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
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
BEN STEIN

Like List Making Sound

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