It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.
RUSSELL SIMMONSLabels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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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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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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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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You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
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That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
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My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
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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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And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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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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