"Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle."

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Kwame Kilpatrick

#Character Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Prepared Quotes

“I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbol later.”
“A church that won't listen to the Word of God is a church already lost.”
“Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement â€œNobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.”
“People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.”
“If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.”
“The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest something in the universe, in whichever way we look at it... This is the charm of Study from Nature itself; she brings us back to absolute truth wherever we wander.”
“Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.”
“For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an â€˜ism becomes so involved in reaction against other â€˜isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.”

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