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.
BEN STEINIf you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
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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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I 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.
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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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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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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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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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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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Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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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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