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 SIMMONSEmbrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
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I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
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Donald Trump’s not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.
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When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might’ve caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.
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It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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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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Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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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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You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.
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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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