Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThere 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 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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I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.
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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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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
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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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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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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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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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Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.
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If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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