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I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.

Russell Simmons

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
Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
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Culture Hollywood Urban
My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
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Animal Running Texas
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Animal Cigarette Smoking
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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Heartbeat Poetry Soundtracks
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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Lasts Wife Years
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Acknowledge Cost Mistake
I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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Fire Genius Records
Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.
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Artist Differences Wise
I would like to employ more people but I don’t want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I’m working on that.
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Empowering People Want
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
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Meditation Missing Yoga
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that’s when you’re able to think and learn.
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Anxiety Insomnia Thinking
I don’t fault business. 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.
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Compassion Remember Running
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision

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