I am scared of running out of money.
BEN STEINYou can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
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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’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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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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Science leads you to killing people.
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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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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?
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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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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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