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I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.

Russell Simmons

No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
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Change Changing Optimistic People
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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Break Career Stars Through
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
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Democracy People Sight
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
I think if you’re open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you’re closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
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Journey Running Thinking
You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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Happiness Laughing Practice
You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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Development Life Self Want
Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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Meditating Meditation Missing
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
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
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
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Community Hard Reflection Work
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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Diversity Oscars Thinking
Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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Enough Moving People
I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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Culture Rap Thinking
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
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Artist Different People Sharing Thinking
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

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