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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

Russell Simmons

A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian.
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Broken Color Justice
My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
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Artist Creative Culture
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
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
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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Development Life Self Want
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
I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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Disclosure Kind Persons
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
No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
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Dream Jobs Trying
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
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
Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
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Christianity Racism Sickness
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
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 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
Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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Opportunity Share World
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
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Complete Intention Oscars
There is a subject – there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that’s sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
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Artist Reflection Sex Something
I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there’s less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.
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Mind Two Want
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
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
I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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Culture Rap Thinking
I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I’m a good giver without expectations.
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Expectations Giver Trying
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

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