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[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it’s a big success story for everyone – except the music industry itself.

Russell Simmons

I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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Goal Positivity Promoting
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
My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
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Animal Running Texas
Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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Goal Ultimate Ultimate Goal
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
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
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
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
I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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Missing Prayer Yoga
Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
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Exists Involved Own
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
I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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Disclosure Kind Persons
Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.
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Believe Business Success
I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I’m not the only one who says it. It’s something I adopted and I believe.
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Believe Causes Suffering
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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Diversity Oscars Thinking

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