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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Ben Stein
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Ben Stein
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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Benjamin Stein
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I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
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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'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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It means zero to be against greed.
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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It's got some gigantic missing pieces.
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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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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'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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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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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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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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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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