Karan Patel Quotes
People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us.
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
-
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
-
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
-
We just here to do our job.
-
I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
-
It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
-
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
-
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
-
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
-
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
-
I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
-
I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
-
I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
-
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
-
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
-
God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
-
For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
-
I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.
-
I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
-
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.
-
If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.
-
I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'
-
People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us.
