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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
Benjamin Stein
Benjamin Jeremy Stein
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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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I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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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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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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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 mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.
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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.
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We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
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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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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
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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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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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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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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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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
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