Ben Stein Quotes
Yes, it making Expelled has made my belief in that Intelligent Design much stronger. It has pointed out something which haunted me ever since I learned about Darwinism, which is, Where did it all start? How did life start? Darwinism has nothing to say about that-nothing useful, anyway-but I think Intelligent Design has a great deal to say about it.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.
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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
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Yes, it making Expelled has made my belief in that Intelligent Design much stronger. It has pointed out something which haunted me ever since I learned about Darwinism, which is, Where did it all start? How did life start? Darwinism has nothing to say about that-nothing useful, anyway-but I think Intelligent Design has a great deal to say about it.
