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You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.

Russell Simmons

I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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Fire Genius Records
Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Attract Everything Needs
You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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Happiness Happy Inspirational
Donald Trump’s not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.
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Artist Expression Running
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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Giving Happiness Keys
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
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Hollywood Incredibly Thinking
The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.
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Grace Mind Thinking
You’ll see a lot of funny stuff, you’ll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you’ll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.
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Daddy Family Funny
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
There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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Culture Hollywood Missing
There is a subject – there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that’s sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
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Artist Reflection Sex Something
The concept is that through a disciplined approach to work and self-sacrifice, Tapas will burn away the negativity that separates us from God. By working our hardest and happily enduring the hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in ourselves.
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Concept Enduring God Negativity Working
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
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Acknowledge Cost Mistake
The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?
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Canditate Giving More Process

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