You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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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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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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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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We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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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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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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