Karan Patel Quotes

I have always been misunderstood.

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• I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Time
  • Me
  • Painting

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Ideas

• Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Music
  • Space

• The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Book
  • Organization

• Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Blood

• We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Believe
  • She
  • Sister

• I think I suffer from some mild depression.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Depression
  • Some

• And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Lost

• The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World

• Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue, and not fate: Next to that virtue is to know vice well, And her black spite expel.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • True
  • Black
  • Fate

• Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

  

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart
  • Different
  • Death

• Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours out of your day.

  

  Matt Cain
  • Lost

• The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Time
  • Vulnerability

• I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Fun

• I'm mixed race - my dad's Caucasian, and my mom's Mexican - so I want to play anything and everything, from American to Latino, the whole spectrum; I'm insatiable.

  

  Lela Loren
  • American
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I never think about gifts. It's enough to have my family present.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Family
  • Present

• Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Good

• La notte che le cose ci nasconde.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they last longer; they also leave behind no hangover, and leave the mental faculties clear and unimpaired. They stimulate the faculties and produce the ideal ground for a peak experience.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Experience
  • Alcohol
  • Hangover

• I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • English
  • Inspired
  • Sea

• I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Day
  • Tree
  • Bench

• Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I have always been misunderstood.

  

  Karan Patel