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

Russell Simmons

No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.
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Break Career Stars Through
When the mind is totally still, there’s only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, “Oh my God! I’m clear! I love this!”
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Breathing Reality Yoga
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Animal Cigarette Smoking
I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
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Believe Inspirational People
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
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
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Country Inspiration Writing
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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Black Needs People
Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
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Encouraging Inspirational Life
I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
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Meditation Missing Yoga
I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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Artist Jobs Thinking
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
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”
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Buddhist Men Thinking
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.
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Artist Differences Wise
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.
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Community Empowering People

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