I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEINI 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
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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 thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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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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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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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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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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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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