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You have to be present, awake and happy now.

Russell Simmons

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
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.
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Benefits Favor Trying
If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
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Elected Justice President System
I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
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Believe Inspirational People
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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Black Needs People
Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Attract Everything Needs
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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People Trying Voice
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
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
Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.
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Happy Make Money
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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Lasts Wife Years
I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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Hell Now Right Vegan
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
The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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Opening Opportunity World
No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.
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Dedication Hard Long Work
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Dream Perceive Realize

You have to be present, awake and happy now.

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