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Ben Stein Quotes

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Ben Stein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father Sad Sleep Smart Thought Go

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

Joe Carnahan

Man War World Think Kind Way

I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

Tony McCoy

Myself Dream Possible Up Convince

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

Mary Stuart Masterson

Time Me Learn Help Acting Way

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

Russell M. Nelson

Blessed World Book Others Forgotten

Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought - needed to feel - the whole business was 'settled.' But it's not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far.

Jonathan Coleman

Business Thought Feel Comfort Never

Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

David Souter

Power Congress Activity Commerce

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

William Morris

Good Great Time Remember Bad Old

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

Thomas Lynch

Experience People Meaning More

You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them.

Thomas Gibson

You Wall Know Nice Audience Still

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

Tina Thompson

Opportunity Game Think Motivation

Bonnaroo is the most significant festival in the country. I can sometimes just get caught up in the moment and listening and say, 'Oops, I gotta go sing now.'

Richie Furay

Moment Listening I Can Go Sometimes

I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality.

Kenya Barris

Hope Best Worst Expect Mentality