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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.

Russell Simmons

If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
I don’t fault business. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
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Compassion Remember Running
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
A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.
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Inspiring Keys Life
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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Lasts Wife Years
I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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Disclosure Kind Persons
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Art Form Noise Stillness
Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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Goal Ultimate Ultimate Goal
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 want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
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Kids Running Want
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
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Answers Lucky Platform
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
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.
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Dedication Hard Long Work
The concept is that through a disciplined approach to work and self-sacrifice, Tapas will burn away the negativity that separates us from God. By working our hardest and happily enduring the hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in ourselves.
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Concept Enduring God Negativity Working

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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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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