Ben Stein

Ben Stein

25-Nov-1944


United States


Writer

Ben Stein (Benjamin Jeremy Stein) is an American writer, actor and lawyer, best known for being the founder of the Emmy Award winning game. After graduating with a law degree, he began his career as an economist in the Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. He later became an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and also served as a professor at American University. His teaching career brought him to the University of California where he taught political and social rights under the Constitution. Later, with the help of his editors, he became the spokesman and attorney for President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford. He eventually became a Hollywood consultant, helping freelance writers to portray a family that kept watching television, and then went on to do advertising and movies. He was good at playing strange characters and unusual characters, and after that he was portrayed in many roles, especially as a nerd. Delivery of his corpse is a new and new variation of the norm for people who are very happy with the commercial. The American lawyer, former game director, actor, political spokesman, law professor, economist, author, and journalist, is widely regarded as the best Republic of Hollywood.

QUOTES BY Ben Stein


"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."

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want."

"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."

"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."

"Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from."

"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."

"You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement."

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

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