Top 100 Ben Stein Quotes

#1. Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.

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#2. 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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#3. Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

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#4. It's a lot better to hope than not to.

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#5. This is my life. I love it.

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.

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#9. So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

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#10. 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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#11. Science leads you to killing people.

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#12. I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

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#16. I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

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

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#18. Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

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#22. I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.

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#23. It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

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#24. 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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#25. You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

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#26. Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

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#27. A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

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#28. Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

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#29. 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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#30. I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

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#31. So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

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#32. I cannot tell you ... how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful ... It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.

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#33. As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

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#34. Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

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#35. Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

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#36. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

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#37. The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.

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#38. And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

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#39. I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.

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#40. I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

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#41. Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family.

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#42. 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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#43. Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

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#44. 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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#45. Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

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#46. The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

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#47. The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

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#48. Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

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#49. 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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#50. Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

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#51. 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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#52. Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

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#53. 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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#54. I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

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#58. For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself ...

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#62. If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

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#63. 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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#64. Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

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#65. 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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#66. My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

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#67. Happiness is being grateful for what you have and having an attitude of gratitude instead of an attitude of envy.

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#68. Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's ... it's got some gigantic missing pieces.

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#69. 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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#70. There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere ... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals ...

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#71. When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

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#72. Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

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#73. When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

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#77. The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.

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#78. Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

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#79. If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

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#83. Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.

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#84. If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

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#85. If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

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#86. I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

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#87. No one will do it for you.

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#88. Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

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#89. 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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#90. People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

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#91. I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

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#92. 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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#93. But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin'
they're ... they don't have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it's a BS answer. It's an answer that wouldn't make sense to a small child.

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#94. 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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#95. Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.

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#96. I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

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#97. It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me.

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#98. 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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#99. Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.

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#100. I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

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