Ben Stein Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”
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“I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.”
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“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”
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“I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.”
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“Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.”
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“I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.”
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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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“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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“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.”
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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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“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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“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.”
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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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“A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.”
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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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“You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot”
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“I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.”
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“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.”
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“What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.”
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“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.”
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“I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.”
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“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”
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“Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”
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“It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.”
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“The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.”
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“I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.”
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“Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.”
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“Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.”
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“My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.”
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