"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."

-- Ben Stein

“An artist must either give up art or develop.”

Source : pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”
“I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.”
“If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in a good direction. But you're gonna stay on that road because you are attached to an ideology. It could be a terrible road, but you stick with it regardless of rational thinking.”
“God will not lead you where He will not provide for you.”
“One of the oldest mythological fables tells of Mercury playing at dice with Selene and winning from her the five days of the epact (thus totaling the 365 days of the year and harmonizing the lunar and solar calendars).”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
“I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.”
“I just want to do cool stuff.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2006.
“Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.”

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