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People 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.

Russell Simmons

If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
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Elected Justice President System
Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
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Encouraging Inspirational Life
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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People Process Steps
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 Thinking Trying
Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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Happen Make Money
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
Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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Great Leap Moving
I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.
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Community Empowering People
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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Issues Long Police
The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.
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Community Creating Safe
A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
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Hurt Laughing People
Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Attract Everything Needs
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 think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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Culture Rap Thinking
Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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Gangsta Government Rapper
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

People 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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