Ben Stein Quotes

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

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• 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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  Tags in Least, Bank

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

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• Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

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• 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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  Tags in People, Obligation

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

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  Tags in Smartest

• 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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• My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

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• If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

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• A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

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• Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

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• If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.

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• Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

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• You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

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• Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.

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• I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.

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• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

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• Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

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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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