It 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.
BEN STEINI think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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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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I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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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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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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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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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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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 spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
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