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You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

Russell Simmons

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.
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Fall Law Rap
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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Happiness Laughing Practice
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
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better… they’re better people, right? They’re segregated. It’s self segregated in some cases, but there’s nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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People Self Thinking
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”
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Buddhist Men Thinking
I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
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Brain Creative Use
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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Important Promote Things
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
The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.
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Brain Gray Matter Stress
The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it.
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Inspiration Seconds Sunset
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Dream Perceive Realize
I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.
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Cooper Education Fun Girl Kids University
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
If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
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Breath Decision Remember

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