Theo Epstein Quotes
Be intentional about the spaces you create but not at the cost of compromising other elements.
Quotes to Explore
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.
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I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'
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The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
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What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.
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I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.
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When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.
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Be intentional about the spaces you create but not at the cost of compromising other elements.
