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The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
Joel Stein
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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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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
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.
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
I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.
Joel Stein
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.
Joel Stein
People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.
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
It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.
Joel Stein
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.
Joel Stein
You don't get anywhere without saying yes.
Joel Stein
I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.
Joel Stein
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.
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
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
Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.
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
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 love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.
Joel Stein
When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.
Joel Stein
I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.
Joel Stein