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It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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Entrepreneur Open Simple World
Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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Hands Movement Rights
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
The artists are now big brands.
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Artists Bigs Brands
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
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Kids Running Want
The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?
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Canditate Giving More Process
I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.
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Keys People Thinking
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
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
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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People Trying Voice
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Art Form Noise Stillness
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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Heartbeat Poetry Soundtracks
A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
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Hurt Laughing People
Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.
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Development Honesty Self

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