The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
BEN STEINI have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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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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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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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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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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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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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?
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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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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 am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
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I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
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