Ben Stein Quotes

• Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Conspiracy

• The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Smartest

• The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Obligation

• The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Least, Bank

• We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.

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  Tags in People, Media

• Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful – just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Sleep

• So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sin, Media

• Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

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  Topics in Life

• Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, After

• I am scared of running out of money.

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  Topics in Money

  Tags in Running

• The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Far

• Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Israel, Ago

•  If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Bother

• As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Become

• I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Comfortable

• I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Car

• I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agree

• I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grocery, Little

• It means zero to be against greed.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Greed

Ben Stein (48)

Birth:	25th November, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Lawyer, Politician, Writer

About

Ben Stein is an American actor, writer, lawyer, and commentator on political and economic issues. He attained early success as a speechwriter for American presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Later, he entered the entertainment field and became an actor, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning game show host.

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