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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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.
BEN STEIN

Games Real Sitting Stretch
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Faults Media People
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
BEN STEIN

People Spend Wanted Years
The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
BEN STEIN

Good Lending Reckless Times
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.
BEN STEIN

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

Life Motivational Relationship
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.
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Design Heaven Intelligent
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Believe Faith Knowing
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
BEN STEIN

Asking Children Stranger
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
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Motivational Perseverance Spirit
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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Done Maps Planning
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
BEN STEIN

League Media Wife
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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Attempting Disprove Should
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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Ideas Race Racism
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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Men Thinking Trying
The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
BEN STEIN

Double Real Stand Star Stunt

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

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