Ben Stein Quotes
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Quotes to Explore
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I love to write.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?
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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
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The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.
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I hate to plan my life.
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The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
