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The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.

Russell Simmons

Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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Enough Moving People
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
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Enough Never Change Resilient
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Educational Knowledge Running
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Art Form Noise Stillness
No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
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Change Changing Optimistic People
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Dream Perceive Realize
I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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Culture Rap Thinking
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
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
I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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Radio Records Way
I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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Animal Hurtful Thinking
The less you need, the more you attract.
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Attract More Needs
There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That’s why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
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People Rap White
I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.
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Keys People Thinking
I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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Bigs Gay Thinking

The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.

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The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.

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