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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.

Russell Simmons

I don’t know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It’s the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Benefits Favor Trying
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.
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Ballet Country People Suffering
If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
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Breath Decision Remember
Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Hard Hustle Out Work
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
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
I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.
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Express Free Hope People Themselves
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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Meditating Meditation Missing
They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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Culture Giving Hollywood
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Animal Cigarette Smoking
I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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Choices Feels President
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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Believe English Men Speak
I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
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Creative Focus People
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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People Smarter Surround Yourself

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