The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you’re talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you’re always coming up against lobbyists.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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I think if you’re open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you’re closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
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You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
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Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.
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I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
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You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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I think it’s very important. I’ve gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It’s something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.
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I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there’s less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.
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I can’t get my medicine.
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People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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The less you need, the more you attract.
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Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I’m a good giver without expectations.
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If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
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I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.
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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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