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A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.

Russell Simmons

We need to hear everyone. We need dialogue between police and the community. They’re angry. They’re hurt. A dialogue can cause a shift in consciousness in the person if he’s understanding you and listening.
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Community Hurt Understanding
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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People Smarter Surround Yourself
Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.
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Happy Make Money
I couldn’t guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid with ADD.
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Guarantees Kids Meditation
Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Attract Everything Needs
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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Fire Genius Records
Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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Hip Hop Life Things
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
There is a subject – there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that’s sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
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Artist Reflection Sex Something
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
I think when you’re very dedicated to something and you’re engaged fully, you become a giver.
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Dedicated Giver Thinking
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
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
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
I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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Choices Feels President

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