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51 Ben Stein Quotes & Sayings
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51 Ben Stein Quotes & Sayings
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
Ben Stein
Always
Attempting
Business
Disprove
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein
Decide
First
FirstStep
Getting
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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.
Ben Stein
Come
Happens
Itself
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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.
Ben Stein
Because
Begin
Fail
Get
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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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Dirty
Face
Fall
Flat
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I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.
Ben Stein
He
Like
Lists
Making
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Amazing
Notions
Ordinary
OrdinaryPeople
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Ben Stein
Accomplished
Began
Beginning
Each
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.
Ben Stein
Cannot
Think
You
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Accomplish
Achieve
BeHappy
Happy
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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.
Ben Stein
Defeat
Defeated
Enter
Even
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
Ben Stein
Done
How
Map
Somewhere
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If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
Ben Stein
Go
Heat
Stand
Summer
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Ben Stein
Believing
Faith
God
Knowing
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You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
Ben Stein
Action
Cannot
Table
Where
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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.
Ben Stein
Deal
Go
Just
Life
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein
Achievement
Advancement
Fertile
Grows
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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.
Ben Stein
Companies
Corporation
Doing
Employees
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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.
Ben Stein
After
Done
Effort
Everything
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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
Decide
First
FirstStep
Getting
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Afternoon
Allowed
Amazed
Better
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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.
Ben Stein
Advice
Dr
Father
Go
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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
Ben Stein
Done
Enough
Equal
EqualRights
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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.
Ben Stein
Allow
Charlatans
Dictators
Engineer
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
Ben Stein
Cadillac
Deserves
Every
Everyone
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Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.
Ben Stein
Although
Days
Easy
Life
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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.
Ben Stein
American
Businesses
Car
Credit
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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.
Ben Stein
Back
Banks
Burned
Good
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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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American
Anyone
Because
Been
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Ben Stein
Faults
Just
Media
People
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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.
Ben Stein
Am
Among
Anyone
Big
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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.
Ben Stein
Against
Animal
Basic
Being
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It means zero to be against greed
Ben Stein
Against
Greed
Means
Zero
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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.
Ben Stein
About
Agree
Apples
Bad
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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.
Ben Stein
About
Been
Blog
Corporate
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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.
Ben Stein
Beings
Eyes
Finer
German
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
Ben Stein
America
Gone
GoneWithTheWind
Knew
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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.
Ben Stein
After
Been
Black
Cannot
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
Ben Stein
Ability
Because
Endeavor
Field
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Believe
Best
Got
Grades
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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.
Ben Stein
Amazing
Bought
Credit
Default
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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
Ben Stein
American
Better
Democrats
Far
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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.
Ben Stein
Being
Condemned
EU
Glee
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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.
Ben Stein
Am
Believe
Book
Certain
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
Ben Stein
Am
Bed
IAm
Just
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Ben Stein
Becomes
Becoming
Beverly
BeverlyHills
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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.
Ben Stein
About
Allowed
Am
America
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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.
Ben Stein
Blessings
God
History
Mankind
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ILove
Life
Love
MyLife
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
Ben Stein
Bed
Car
ILove
Love
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