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You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

Russell Simmons

I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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Bills Car Pay
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
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
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Acknowledge Cost Mistake
The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.
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Community Creating Safe
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Educational Knowledge Running
The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it.
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Inspiration Seconds Sunset
I can’t get my medicine.
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Health Issue Medicine
I don’t know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It’s the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.
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Benefits Favor Trying
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
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Choices Gratefulness Practice
Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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Gangsta Government Rapper
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
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

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