Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
RUSSELL SIMMONSPeople are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
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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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Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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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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Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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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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There’s one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.
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I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
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When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might’ve caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.
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As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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Meditation helps everything.
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American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
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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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