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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.

Russell Simmons

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
Good givers are great getters.
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Getters Giver Great
A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
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Hurt Laughing People
I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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Artist Jobs Thinking
Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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Goal Positivity Promoting
Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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Happen Make Money
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Art Form Noise Stillness
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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Believe English Men Speak
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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Gone Important Thinking
I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I’m not the only one who says it. It’s something I adopted and I believe.
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Believe Causes Suffering
And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
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Again Distraction Mantras Practices Soon
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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Heartbeat Poetry Soundtracks
I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.
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Better Feel Healthy Looks
I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.
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Keys People Thinking
Cruelty is cruelty, whether it’s cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.
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Cat Children Dog
I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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Radio Records Way

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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