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You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.

Russell Simmons

The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it.
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Inspiration Seconds Sunset
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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Lasts Wife Years
I think it’s very important. I’ve gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It’s something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.
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Gone Important Thinking
I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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Communities People Suffering
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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Goal Simple Trying
The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you’re talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you’re always coming up against lobbyists.
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Biggest Changed Lobbyist Overseas
I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there’s less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.
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Mind Two Want
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
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Hollywood Incredibly Thinking
A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian.
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Broken Color Justice
Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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Hip Hop Life Things
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
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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Happiness Happy Inspirational
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
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Community Hard Reflection Work
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination

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