When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
BEN STEINThe poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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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.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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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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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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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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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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