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Russell Simmons

No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
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Circumstance Done Matter
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Dream Perceive Realize
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White
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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Pain Rap Rock
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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Increase People Positive Vibrations
Cruelty is cruelty, whether it’s cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.
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Cat Children Dog
Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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Goal Positivity Promoting
I’m always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
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People Smart Talent
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
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Art Express Way Yourself
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
[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it’s a big success story for everyone – except the music industry itself.
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Artist Events People
The less you need, the more you attract.
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Attract More Needs
You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.
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Business Entrepreneur People
You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
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Anything Opportunity Waiting
I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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Disclosure Kind Persons

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