I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI’m always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
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Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.
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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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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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An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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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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I have faith in people and our government ultimately to do the right thing. And to my brothers and sisters in California, I’m there with you every step of the way until that day comes…
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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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Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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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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The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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