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I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.
Joel Stein
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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
Journalist
Screenwriter
Edison Township
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You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.
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I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.
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I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.
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People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.
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People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, No, I'm a writer, I don't host things. Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.
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The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.
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Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.
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When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.
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I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken a while. But the forest, I still don't really love.
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I never thought to look at the New York Times one, even though I knew people were pissed off. I've seen YouTube videos from people who are pissed off at me about that and that takes a lot of effort to go find.
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The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.
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I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.
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