Theo Epstein Quotes
It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
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We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.
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Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.
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Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are.
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It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.
