I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
BEN STEINWhen I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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Science leads you to killing people.
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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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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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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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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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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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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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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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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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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
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