Best Quotes by Ben Stein (Top 10)
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.
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I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy
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If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
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