Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
BEN STEINMy ‘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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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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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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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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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It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
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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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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.
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Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
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Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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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 feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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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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