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We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

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Ben Stein
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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Benjamin J. Stein
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Benjamin Jeremy Stein
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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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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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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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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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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 love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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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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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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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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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 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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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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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 banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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