Ben Stein Quotes

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Ben Stein

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 25, 1944

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

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This is my life. I love it.

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My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

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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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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.

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I am scared of running out of money.

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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

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As 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.

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The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.

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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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I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.

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If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.

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I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.

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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.

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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

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Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.

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Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

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