QUOTES by Ben Stein
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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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"If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace."
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"The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind."
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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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"Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities."
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"The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves."
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"When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?"
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"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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"As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative."
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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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"If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god."
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"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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"It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it."
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"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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"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 tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue."
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"Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too."
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"I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant."
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"Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science."
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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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"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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"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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"If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked."
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"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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"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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"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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"It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it."
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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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"I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal."
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"I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so."
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"When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it."
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"Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley."
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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 spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke."
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"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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"The first step to getting the tings you want out of "life "is this: Decide what you want."
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"Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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