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Russell Simmons

If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.
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Beautiful Encouragement Rushing
Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Attract Everything Needs
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
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
You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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Happiness Laughing Practice
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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Diversity Oscars Thinking
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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People Trying Voice
You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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Important Promote Things
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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Pain Rap Rock
I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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Radio Records Way
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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Black Needs People
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
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
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
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.
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Artist Different People Sharing Thinking
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

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