The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEINPersonal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
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I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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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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Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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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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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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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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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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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 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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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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