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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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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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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.
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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've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.
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The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
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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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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.
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I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
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I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.
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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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I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.
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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 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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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 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.
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You don't get anywhere without saying yes.
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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.
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You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.
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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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You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.
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