Joel Stein Quotes

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• 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

  Wine, Rose, Taste

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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.

  Joel Stein

  Army, Order, People

  "Warriors and wusses". articles.latimes.com. January 24, 2006.

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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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  Running, Pushing It, Really Sad

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Taken, Thinking, People

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• Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.

  Joel Stein

  Clouds, Luxury Hotels, Blue

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• I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

  Joel Stein

  Fun, Boss, Joyous

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• Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

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  Real, Different, World

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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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  People, Niche, Touchy

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• People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

  Joel Stein

  Real, People, Different

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• I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

  Joel Stein

  Years, Bars, Happens

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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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  Caring, Skins, Stop Caring

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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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  Thinking, People, Identity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

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  War, Vegas, America

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• With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.

  Joel Stein

  Needs

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• There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.

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  People, Symbolic, Has Beens

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• I hate walking up to strangers.

  Joel Stein

  Hate, Stranger, I Hate

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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.

  Joel Stein

  Thanks, Nervous, Force

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• I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.

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  Thinking, Views, Libertarian

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

  Joel Stein

  Kids, Wish, Painful Moments

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• I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

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  Reading, Home, Humanity

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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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  Book, Pages, Stuff

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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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  Fun, Intelligent, Talking

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• I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.

  Joel Stein

  Moving, Thinking, Hunting

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Appreciation, Taken, Forests

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

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  Thinking, Animal, Want

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