The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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When 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.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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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 love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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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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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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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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