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I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.

Russell Simmons

Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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Meditating Meditation Missing
I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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Hip Hips Hop Offensive
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
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
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Animal Cigarette Smoking
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
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Complete Intention Oscars
I ask everyone – white Hollywood and black Hollywood – to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That’s where they’re going to learn from each other, and that’s where they’re going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.
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Black Hollywood White
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
There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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Culture Hollywood Missing
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 have faith in people and our government ultimately to do the right thing. And to my brothers and sisters in California, I’m there with you every step of the way until that day comes…
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Country Right Step Thing Until Come
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
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
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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Form Sorry Violence
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision

I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.

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I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.

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