I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
BEN STEINI’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
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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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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 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.
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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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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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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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I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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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.
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