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Ben Stein Biography

Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an American writer, lawyer, actor, and commentator on political and economic issues. A graduate of Columbia University, Stein began his career in law, graduating as valedictorian from Yale Law School. He attained early success as a speechwriter for U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Later, he entered the entertainment field and became an actor, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning game show host. He is most well-known on screen as the economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and as Dr. Arthur Neuman in The Mask (1994) and Son of the Mask (2005).

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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're. . . they don't have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it's a BS answer. It's an answer that wouldn't make sense to a small child.

Children, Make, Mean, People, Small, Talk

Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

Americans, Businesses, Car, Home, Trying, Yes

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

Bed, Listening, Love, Lying, Mozart

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.

Allies, Israel, Middle, Middle East, Reliable, Strongest

And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

Darwin, Darwinism, Life, Progress

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

Basic, Darwinism, Ideas, Murder, Race, Racism

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.

Duty, Helping Others, Highest, Life, Realize, Use

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

Confidence, Hollywood, Men, See, Sees, Stories

Yes, [I spent] two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve -- no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!

Europe, Jobs, Species, Universe, Years

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Interest, Occupation, Thankless

For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.

Aims, Answer, Names, Scope, Struggle, Successful

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.

Body, Camera, Front, Men, Real, Stars

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Action, Table, Tables, Win, Winning

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Life, Motivational, Personal, Relationship, Soil

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

Ban, City, Hate, Israelis, Moon, Russia

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

Entitled, Good Things, Person, Snob, Thinking, Would Be

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

Achievement, Alert, People, Plain, Sleep

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Seems, Ifs, Days, Fast, Old, Life

What the White House is trying to do is racialize all politics and they're especially trying to tell the African-American voter that the GOP is against letting them have a chance at a good life in this economy, and that's just a complete lie.

Against, Economy, Good Life, Life, Lying, White

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

People, Rich, Exception, General, Rare

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