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 STEINNothing 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 STEINHollywood 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 STEINThe 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 STEINAnd 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 STEINScience leads you to killing people.
BEN STEINYou 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 STEINTrying 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 STEINMen and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
BEN STEINI 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 STEINPrime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
BEN STEINUsually 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 STEINI 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 STEINThe indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
BEN STEINAs 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 STEINI am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
BEN STEINPersonal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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