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When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.

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
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
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Art Express Way Yourself
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
When the mind is totally still, there’s only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, “Oh my God! I’m clear! I love this!”
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Breathing Reality Yoga
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Dream Perceive Realize
It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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Building Careers
Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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Meditating Meditation Missing
Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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Buckets Giving Soul
You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
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Anything Opportunity Waiting
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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People Trying Voice
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 Jobs Running
The concept is that through a disciplined approach to work and self-sacrifice, Tapas will burn away the negativity that separates us from God. By working our hardest and happily enduring the hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in ourselves.
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Concept Enduring God Negativity Working
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Educational Knowledge 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
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 just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
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Believe English Men Speak
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 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
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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Goal Simple Trying
Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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Clouds Labels Vision
They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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Culture Giving Hollywood
Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Hard Hustle Out Work
No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.
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Break Career Stars Through
I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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Bigs Gay Thinking
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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Circumstance Done Matter
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

When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.

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