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.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI couldn’t guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid with ADD.
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They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.
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The artists are now big brands.
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Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
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My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
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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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Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.
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I think it’s very important. I’ve gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It’s something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.
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Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
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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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