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I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

Russell Simmons

No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
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Change Changing Optimistic People
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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People Process Steps
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
Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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Great Leap Moving
Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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Goal Positivity Promoting
Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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Opportunity Share World
The politicians already in office don’t want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start working for the people, but even some of the most progressive politicians are silent because they know that the candidate with the most money wins.
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Heart Office Winning
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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Helpful Helping People Question
Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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Buckets Giving Soul
It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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Building Careers
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
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
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
I ask everyone – white Hollywood and black Hollywood – to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That’s where they’re going to learn from each other, and that’s where they’re going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.
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Black Hollywood White
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Acknowledge Cost Mistake
The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.
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Meditation Noise Tools

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