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I don't read letters sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.
Joel Stein
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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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Edison Township
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Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.
Joel Stein
You don't get anywhere without saying yes.
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You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions.
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I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.
Joel Stein
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.
Joel Stein
I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
Joel Stein
I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.
Joel Stein
I don't read the letters section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.
Joel Stein
Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.
Joel Stein
The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
Joel Stein
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.
Joel Stein
Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.
Joel Stein
I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
Joel Stein
I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.
Joel Stein
I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.
Joel Stein
I've learned over time that every editor has told me when you're getting that much hate, you don't talk about it. You just kind of don't give it oxygen and let it go away. It's almost - not always, but almost - always the best policy.
Joel Stein
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.
Joel Stein
It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
Joel Stein
You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.
Joel Stein
People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.
Joel Stein