Quotes by Ben Stein

Ben Stein

Ben Stein

American professor, writer

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

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  • It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.
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  • Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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  • My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'
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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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  • Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism.
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  • No one will do it for you.
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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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  • Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
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  • Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
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  • Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
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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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  • Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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  • The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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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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  • The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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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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