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I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.

Russell Simmons

I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.
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Better Feel Healthy Looks
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
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
Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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Clouds Labels Vision
You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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Able People Thinking
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
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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Bigs Gay Thinking
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
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
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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Culture Hollywood Urban
You’ll see a lot of funny stuff, you’ll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you’ll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.
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Daddy Family Funny
Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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Happen Make Money
It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.
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Fall Law Rap
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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Ballet Country People Suffering
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 know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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Hell Now Right Vegan
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
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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Dream Realizing World
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
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Country President Support
If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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Break Through Digging Wall
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that’s when you’re able to think and learn.
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Anxiety Insomnia Thinking
I would like to employ more people but I don’t want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I’m working on that.
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Empowering People Want
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
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Hollywood Incredibly Thinking
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
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Democracy People Sight
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
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Community Hard Reflection Work
That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
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Day Every My Thoughts Watches

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