If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
BEN STEINIt doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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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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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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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.
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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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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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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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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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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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