Ben Stein Quotes
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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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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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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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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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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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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These candidates are all beholden to these super PACs.
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
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Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.
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For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - that's what I deeply loved.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
