Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
BEN STEINI 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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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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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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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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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.
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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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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.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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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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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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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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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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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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