Ben Stein Quotes

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

Ben Stein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Disability in the Middle East is viewed through a different lens because you're in wartime countries where it's much more mainstream, so I was just never 'other'd.

Maysoon Zayid

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I don't just study my opponent; I study myself. It's something you have to do to get better.

Stefon Diggs

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Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it's difficult to actually do the work.

Troy Carter

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I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.

Mike Love

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We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

Michael Polanyi

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Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

Mitt Romney

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Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!

Constance Marie

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I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.

ASAP Rocky

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Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Philippe Petit

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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

Peter Ackroyd

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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!

Mariah Carey

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