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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

Ben Stein

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.
BEN STEIN

Exertion Responsibility Way
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.
BEN STEIN

Beautiful Men Years
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
BEN STEIN

Credit Law People
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.
BEN STEIN

Citizens Paradoxical Prove
Science leads you to killing people.
BEN STEIN

Killing People Religion
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
BEN STEIN

Done Everything Life Pain Real
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 STEIN

Anyone Else Long People Person Trying
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
BEN STEIN

Fields Men Succeed
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.
BEN STEIN

Wall Writing Years
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
BEN STEIN

Christian Island Religious
Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
BEN STEIN

Believe Book Legend
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?
BEN STEIN

Country Evil Thinking
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
BEN STEIN

Inspirational Life Motivational
As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
BEN STEIN

Media People Personality
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
BEN STEIN

Become Get Ill Old Scare
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEIN

Life Motivational Relationship

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

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