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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 hate walking up to strangers. — Joel Stein

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

It's hard to discipline yourself not to explain yourself or apologize. — Joel Stein

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. — Joel Stein

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 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

When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion. — Nhat Hanh

What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit? ... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning. — Renzo Gracie

Dad hit lecture mode from word one. — Devon Monk

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

No. They believe we're dumb animals. And they won't contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears. — Ursley Kempe

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television. — Radiohead

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

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

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

I hate that door," continued Marvin. "I'm not getting you down at all, am I? — Douglas Adams

Wouldn't have pegged you for a dancer," he spoke to my mind.
"Funny, I would have pegged you for a stalker," I shot back. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy — Benjamin Franklin

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. — Thomas Carlyle

You don't get anywhere without saying yes. — Joel Stein

That's what life is. Adjustment. — David Wong

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

The people who get places in life just say yes to everything. — Joel Stein

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

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

Firefighter is one of the few jobs kind enough to warn me away by containing two words I'm not interested in, unlike the deceptive bookkeeper. — Joel Stein

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book. — Joel Stein

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity. — Joel Stein

With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy. — Joel Stein

You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online. — Joel Stein

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

You've got to believe in yourself first. Take risks and don't be afraid to fall. — Mary Lou Retton

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference. — Virginia Graham

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

To describe 'how' means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another. — Yuval Noah Harari