The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
BEN STEINI 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.
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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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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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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 …
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I don’t consider an actor a star if he’s paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they’re not role models.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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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.
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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.
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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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It’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.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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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.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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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 don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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