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Ben Stein
American
Actor
Born:
Nov 25
,
1944
Great
Life
Me
People
Time
You
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I am scared of running out of money.
Ben Stein
Money
Out
Running
Scared
Am
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
Ben Stein
Old
Getting Old
Scared
Am
Getting
Being
Ill
I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
Ben Stein
People
Problem
Money
Financial
Too Much
Trouble
Too
Too Much Money
Relative
Spend
Way
Say
States
Kind
About
Main
Schools
Terrible
America
Get
Endemic
Just
Taught
Much
Should
Income
United
United States
United States Of America
Thing
I tell you why I don't think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don't think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
Ben Stein
Life
Good
Me
You
Vote
Will
Think
Say
Tell
Democrat
Because
Democrats
Issue
Very
May
Why
Ever
Right
Number
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
Ben Stein
Brilliant
Think
Incredibly
Evolution
Unbelievably
Darwinism
Within
Just
Explaining
Theory
Species
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
Ben Stein
Sad
People
Matter
Year
Every
Spending
Say
Rises
Fact
Sad Fact
Want
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
Ben Stein
Time
Long
Else
Individual
Beat
Long Period
Pick
Over
Period
Stocks
Trying
Anyone
Anyone Else
Warren
Warren Buffett
Trap
Hardly
We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.
Ben Stein
Myself
Good
Generation
Too Much
Too
Spend
Way
Though
Lazy
Make
Exempt
Undisciplined
Much
Even
Income
I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
Ben Stein
Work
Training
Only
Economist
Worked
Really
It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me.
Ben Stein
Great
Me
Game
Looking
Booth
Tormented
Only
Part
Sort
Real
Very
Sitting
Game Show
Hard
Show
Stretch
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.
Ben Stein
Beautiful
Christmas
Me
People
Single
Every
Trees
Bit
Ancestors
Those
Threatened
Bother
Feel
Call
Does
Am
Up
Discriminated
Lit
Against
Little
Little Bit
Even
Jew
Jewish
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
Ben Stein
Fear
Free
Assumed
Inquiry
Pursue
Without
Always
Scientists
Line
Were
Question
Any
Reprisal
Ask
For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
Ben Stein
God
Me
Design
Earth
Leap
Always
Huge
Intelligent
Heavens
Created
Believed
People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.
Ben Stein
People
Rare
Free
Free Society
Rich
Society
Too
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Some
General
Exceptions
Makes
Getting
Which
Richer
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
Ben Stein
Good
Man
Confidence
See
About
Sees
Good Story
Like
Sells
Story
Hollywood
Themselves
Who
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
Ben Stein
Time
Fear
Spend
Broke
Never
Remotely
Been
Close
Going
So Much Time
Much
Even
Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
Ben Stein
Work
Home
You
Better
More
Take
Allowed
Feel
Nap
How
How Much
Amazed
Afternoon
Much
Night
Sleep
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
Ben Stein
Beautiful
Ugly
Men
Scams
Wow
About
Main
Cheap
Con
Were
Years
Lot
Expensive
Hollywood
Livelihood
Largely
I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
Ben Stein
Vote
Rarely
About
Something
Allowed
Until
Am
Doing
Exist
America
Did
Human
Human Beings
Beings
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
Ben Stein
God
You
Man
Age
Smart
Amazing
Fraud
Unbelief
More
No-One
Smart Man
Call
Account
Accounting
Get
After
Really
Even
Away
Ever
If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.
Ben Stein
War
Time
Together
Arabia
Would
Weapons
Some
Horrible
About
Scenario
Could
Devilish
Know
Got
Korea
Iran
South
South Korea
North
North Korea
Same
Short
Stop
Same Time
Against
Them
Using
Nuclear
Saudi
Nuclear Weapons
Saudi Arabia
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Ben Stein
Overcome
Fail
Because
Inertia
Go
Begin
Get
Many
Started
The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
Ben Stein
Wind
Gone
Knew
Smartest
America
Place
Gone With The Wind
Planet
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.
Ben Stein
Buy
Family
Shopping
Cheese
Different Kinds
Dairy
Sliced
Immense
Insane
Bacon
Kinds
Deli
Poultry
Stuff
Bakery
Quantities
How
How Much
Fried
Fried Chicken
Chicken
Eggs
Different
Packaged
Little
Much
Grocery
Grocery Shopping
Many
Milk
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Ben Stein
You
Will
Own
Nothing
Once
Way
Come
Make
Understand
Itself
Happens
Your
I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.
Ben Stein
He
Like
Making
Sound
Lists
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