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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.

Ben Stein

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEIN

Life Motivational Relationship
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.
BEN STEIN

Different Doe Large Loss Money
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.
BEN STEIN

Beautiful Men Years
I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
BEN STEIN

Friendly Long People
I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
BEN STEIN

Car Moving Sleep
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.
BEN STEIN

Children Crush Parenting
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.
BEN STEIN

Design Heaven Intelligent
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
BEN STEIN

Animal Breathing Mean
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEIN

Bed Listening Lying
It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
BEN STEIN

Birthday Men Smart
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN

Done Maps Planning
Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
BEN STEIN

Exertion Responsibility Way
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 STEIN

Parent People Successful
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
BEN STEIN

Book Interesting Men Reading
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
BEN STEIN

Feelings Little Thinking
It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
BEN STEIN

Better Hope Hopeful Inspirational

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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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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