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Ben Stein Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 25, 1944

Topics

Good Good Times Back Wild See I See

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

Meghan O'Rourke

Grief Experience Disruption Cannot

That's really important to me - creating moments that last forever.

Me Moments Creating Important Last

My father is very supportive of anything that his kids want to do.

Father Want Anything Kids Supportive

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

Differences Way Similarities Film TV

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

Funny Phone Why Need Phone Number

Man, I used to go around and think, 'Oh my God, what must it be like to be going down the street, and someone asks you, 'What's your name?' and the reply would be, 'John Coltrane.' I couldn't imagine what that would be like.

Roscoe Mitchell

God Man Think Name Someone You

I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

Rufus Wainwright

Music Way Frame Big Big Fan Fan

Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again, once you've been branded a felon.

Michelle Alexander

Legal Discrimination You Old Left

When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil's Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.

Life Alone Purpose Mountain Thought

The problem that we've had is four media companies run media, globally. And some say they're on the Right and some say they're on the Left; look, they're all afraid of losing Ford as a client. So they're all, by definition, huge companies that are going to be inherently conservative.

Losing Problem Media Look Say Run

I think comics are really - superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they're about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that's not to say all stories should be happy.

Time Best Joy Happy Be Happy World

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

Today Science Ideas You Open Source

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