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I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.

Russell Simmons

I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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Choices Feels President
I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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Fire Genius Records
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
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Pain Rap Rock
Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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Hands Movement Rights
There’s one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.
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Issues Long Police
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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People Saying Thinking
Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
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Culture Hollywood Urban
I’m always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
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People Smart Talent
I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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Animal Hurtful Thinking
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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Expectations Giver Trying
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”
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Buddhist Men Thinking
If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.
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Beautiful Encouragement Rushing
Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Attract Everything Needs
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Educational Knowledge Running
I think when you’re very dedicated to something and you’re engaged fully, you become a giver.
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Dedicated Giver Thinking
Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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Broken Hollywood People

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