When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
BEN STEINIt’s a lot better to hope than not to.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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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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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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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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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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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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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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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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