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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.
Ben Stein
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Ben Stein
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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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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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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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
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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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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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I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun it's the best job on Earth.
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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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What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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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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We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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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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