Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
BEN STEINIt’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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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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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.
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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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No one will do it for you.
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For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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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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It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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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 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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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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