Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
BEN STEINI think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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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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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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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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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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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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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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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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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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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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