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Russell Simmons

You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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Able People Thinking
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
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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Artist Jobs Thinking
The stuff I do, I do every day, and I’ve been doing it for long periods of time. I don’t start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
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Long Running Stuff
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
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Kids Running Want
A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
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Hurt Laughing People
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
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
I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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Missing Prayer Yoga
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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Black Needs People
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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Goal Simple Trying
I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I’m a good giver without expectations.
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Expectations Giver Trying
Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.
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Country Keys Kids
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
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness

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