My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
BEN STEINI am scared of running out of money.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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.
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I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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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.
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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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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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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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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.’
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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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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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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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