Theo Epstein Quotes

We don't live in isolation. Most people don't like working in isolation - some do, but they typically don't end up playing Major League Baseball.

Theo Epstein

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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Robert Shea

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The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Stanley Hauerwas

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We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

Steve Yzerman

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A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.

Tory Lanez

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I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

Tom Lehrer

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I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.

Rodney Crowell

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At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

Jay Mohr

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Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.

Joshua A. Norton

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To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

Joshua Waitzkin

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When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

Bobby Vinton

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