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Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.

Russell Simmons

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
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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People Rap White
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
Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
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Exists Involved Own
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
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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People Smarter Surround Yourself
Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
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Enough Never Change Resilient
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
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’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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Important Promote Things
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
Donald Trump’s not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.
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Artist Expression Running
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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People Saying Thinking
If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.
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Beautiful Encouragement Rushing
And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
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Again Distraction Mantras Practices Soon

Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.

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Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.

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