Ben Stein Quotes
The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
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I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.
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Culture changes with economic development.
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Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.
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My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans.
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
