Latest Joel Stein Quotes from Interviews

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• The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

  Joel Stein

  People, Place In Life

  Source: therumpus.net

• When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.

  Joel Stein

  Kids, Hungry, Columns

  Source: therumpus.net

• You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

  Joel Stein

  Saying Yes

  Source: therumpus.net

• Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.

  Joel Stein

  Writing, Son, Wind

  Source: therumpus.net

• You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.

  Joel Stein

  Mind, Online

  Source: therumpus.net

• I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.

  Joel Stein

  Caring, Skins, Stop Caring

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

  Writing, Disease, Imagine

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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, Stories, Mail

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Joel Stein

  Years, Bars, Happens

  Source: therumpus.net

• I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.

  Joel Stein

  Long, Forget, Comment

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Joel Stein

  New York, People, Effort

  Source: therumpus.net

• I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

  Joel Stein

  Magazines, Letters, Posts

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize.

  Joel Stein

  Discipline, Apologizing, Explain Yourself

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

  Thinking, Stories, Magazines

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

  Army, Thinking, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

  Hate, Oxygen, Editors

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Joel Stein

  Real, People, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

• When I get real big volumes of hate mail, it's usually because I wrote something poorly. But it's also because some group told people to e-mail me and those people didn't read the article, they read the post about what I wrote about. And they all e-mail me. And they all come around at the same time.

  Joel Stein

  Hate, Real, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Joel Stein

  Real, Different, World

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

  People, Niche, Touchy

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

  Hate, Boys, Games

  Source: therumpus.net

• I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

  Joel Stein

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they're the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously.

  Joel Stein

  Jobs, New York, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

• I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.

  Joel Stein

  Writing, Sushi, Columns

  Source: therumpus.net

• I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

  Joel Stein

  People, Marketing, Networking

  Source: therumpus.net