Ben Stein Quotes

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Ben Stein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating technological change.

Joe Lonsdale

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As a child, I would go days without speaking, and then suddenly I would scream until everyone was looking at me.

Jenny Zhang

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I love eating in San Francisco, Chiang Dao, China, Tokyo, Hanoi.

Andrew Zimmern

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My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.

Tory Lanez

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That is always really fun when you get to work with a director you understand and uses references you can identify with.

Travis Beacham

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The truth is that when a man has a child, and it's a girl, and he doesn't change as a man, he's not much of a man.

Rod Lurie

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Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

Russell Smith

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Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'

Mary Daly

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Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love - from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare.

Mireille Mathieu

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One can be more than once in love - that's the most important thing.

Luise Rainer

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I'd love to do something with Bruno Mars because I love his voice and the playful and intelligent way he delivers a song.

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Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together.

Joyce DeWitt

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