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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein
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Ben Stein
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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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 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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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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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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It's a lot better to hope than not to.
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I'm out and about meeting people all day long. And I'm very friendly I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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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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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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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
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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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I 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?
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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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