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Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

Russell Simmons

You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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Important Promote Things
Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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Meditating Meditation Missing
Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Hard Hustle Out Work
The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.
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Beach Hbo Years
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 Thinking Trying
Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.
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Artist Differences Wise
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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Goal Simple Trying
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
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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Black Needs People
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
You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
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Anything Opportunity Waiting
[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it’s a big success story for everyone – except the music industry itself.
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Artist Events People
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that’s when you’re able to think and learn.
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Anxiety Insomnia Thinking
Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.
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Chasing Realizing Running
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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Christianity Racism Sickness

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

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