Ben Stein Quotes

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Ben Stein

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 25, 1944

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

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I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

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I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.

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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

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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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I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

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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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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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It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me.

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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

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If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

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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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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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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

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