Ben Stein Quotes

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

Ben Stein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think I went to 67 'Grateful Dead' shows. I'm the only 'Deadhead' who doesn't know the precise number, and it's totally humiliating.

Ann Coulter

GratefulThinkKnowDeadOnlyWho

Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.

Michael Shermer

ScienceThoughtEventsUnderstood

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

Mitchell Reiss

EarlySameNuclear WeaponsShareDid

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Luis von Ahn

GoodScienceJobSmartWorldDone

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Denzel Washington

LifeFamilyActingLivingWayJust

The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other.

Del Close

PositiveArtTogetherSimplePeople

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Debra Winger

GoodMarriageHappyHappy Marriage

When I can't write, it depresses me.

Brian Wilson

MeWrite

I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.

Arturo O'Farrill

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Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Alice Paul

WomenWaitLongLibertyDeserveUs

I believe that our Vuse, the digital vaping cigarette, is a game-changing product, and I believe that it satisfies smokers significantly better than anything that is on the market today.

Susan Cameron

TodayBelieveBetterI Believe

I will never write fiction.

Svetlana Alexievich

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