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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

Russell Simmons

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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Hip Hop Life Things
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
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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Building Careers
I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.
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Community Empowering People
Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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Buckets Giving Soul
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
The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.
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Community Creating Safe
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
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Country President Support
I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
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Calling Complaining Media
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
There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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Culture Hollywood Missing
The artists are now big brands.
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Artists Bigs Brands
You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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Able People Thinking
I would like to employ more people but I don’t want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I’m working on that.
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Empowering People Want
I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
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Brain Creative Use

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