No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better… they’re better people, right? They’re segregated. It’s self segregated in some cases, but there’s nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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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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That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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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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A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
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Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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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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I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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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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I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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I don’t know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It’s the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.
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