Karan Patel Quotes

I have always been misunderstood.

Karan Patel

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• You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Luck

• 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

• Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
  • Woman
  • Gay

• 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

• Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they end up serving the interests of only a tiny minority, as is increasingly the case, we have the right - and indeed the duty - to regulate them in the interest of greater social good.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Up
  • Good
  • Nature

• 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

• Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Success
  • Focus
  • Complacency

• Gabrina tenne sempre gli occhi bassi,Perché non ben risposta al vero dassi.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• 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 whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Culture
  • Weird
  • Celebrity

• I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • School
  • Dance
  • Talent

• There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Virtues
  • Accepts
  • Severity

• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, 'I' do not hit, 'it' hits all by itself.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • May

• I'm not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.

  

  Bethany Mota

• I have always been misunderstood.

  

  Karan Patel