Eric Holder Quotes

History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.

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• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Stop
  • Beginning

• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Job
  • Man
  • Government

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Vanilla

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Education
  • Child
  • Sides

• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Professional
  • Well

• Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Career

• Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Reading

• But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Nails

• It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • City
  • Thought
  • British

• I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • God
  • Me
  • Feelings

• In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Cinema
  • Photographs
  • Supermarket

• Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• The Bush Doctrine is democratic imperialism. This will bleed, bankrupt and isolate this republic. This overthrows the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about what America should be all about.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Wisdom

• As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep, As on an elevation, and behold The academies like structures in a mist.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Moments
  • Sleep

• My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?

  

  Eminem
  • Down
  • Middle
  • Wave

• We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Country
  • American
  • History

• Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.

  

  Heather Watts
  • History
  • Debut
  • Misty Copeland

• Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.

  

  Andre Aciman

• I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

  

  David Hockney
  • Up

• The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • World
  • American
  • War

• History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.

  

  Eric Holder
  • History
  • Communities
  • Surface