You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEINWhen Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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 so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
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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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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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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.
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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 sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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I 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.
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It’s about how Darwin ‘s theory – supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus – led to the murder of millions of innocent people.
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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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