Ben Stein Quotes

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  The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

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• Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

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• It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

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• So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.

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• The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

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

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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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• 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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• You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

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• It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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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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• 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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• 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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Ben Stein (48)

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

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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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