Alex Epstein Quotes

The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

Alex Epstein

• Government
• Permission
• Commerce

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• I can't take anything seriously.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Anything
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Technology

• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wisdom

• My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Trump

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Done
  • Best

• To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Kings

• I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Experience

• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Want
  • Magic
  • Tricks

• A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Good
  • Team
  • Football

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Why
  • Know
  • Kind

• I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Attention
  • Talk

• I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • College
  • Best
  • Chance

• I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Love
  • Book
  • Reading

• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Creativity
  • Only
  • Capitalist

• I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Jeans

• Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.

  

  Gerry Spence
  • People
  • Government
  • Liberty

• When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Pray

• If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.

  

  Thomas Woods
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Stills

• The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • Security
  • Well

• The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

  

  Alex Epstein
  • Government
  • Permission
  • Commerce