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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

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Ben Stein
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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Benjamin J. Stein
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Benjamin Jeremy Stein
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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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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Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'
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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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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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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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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 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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We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
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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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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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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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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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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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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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I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.
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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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