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Russell Simmons

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
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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People Smarter Surround Yourself
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
I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
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Believe Inspirational People
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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Diversity Oscars Thinking
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
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
Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Hard Hustle Out Work
No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
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Circumstance Done Matter
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
Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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Gangsta Government Rapper
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
Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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Goal Ultimate Ultimate Goal
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
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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People Process Steps
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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