American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThey’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
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I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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I 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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Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
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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 don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I’m an optimist.
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I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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