Ben Stein Quotes

God bless the devout Christians of this country. They are Israel's best friends on the earth.

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• Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Care

• My hunger is always there.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Always
  • Hunger

• I need instant gratification.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Need
  • Instant
  • Gratification

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Experience
  • You
  • Control

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • May
  • She
  • Society

• My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Single

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • End

• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Song
  • Single

• I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Peace
  • Myself
  • Shoes

• What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • English

• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Come

• It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • New

• If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.

  

  Ethan Mordden
  • Story
  • Writer

• Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

  

  James Payn
  • Good
  • Friends
  • High

• For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Children
  • Money

• Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • World
  • God
  • Earth

• God bless the devout Christians of this country. They are Israel's best friends on the earth.

  

  Ben Stein
  • God
  • Country
  • Friends