If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThere are no failures, only quitters.
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You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I’m an optimist.
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When the mind is totally still, there’s only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, “Oh my God! I’m clear! I love this!”
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If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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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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Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
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I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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The artists are now big brands.
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The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
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I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
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If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
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The concept is that through a disciplined approach to work and self-sacrifice, Tapas will burn away the negativity that separates us from God. By working our hardest and happily enduring the hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in ourselves.
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Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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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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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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Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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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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The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you’re talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you’re always coming up against lobbyists.
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