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You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.

Russell Simmons

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
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
Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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Opportunity Share World
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
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Complete Intention Oscars
I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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Bills Car Pay
The stuff I do, I do every day, and I’ve been doing it for long periods of time. I don’t start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
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Long Running Stuff
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
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
And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
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Again Distraction Mantras Practices Soon
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Acknowledge Cost Mistake
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
No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
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Change Changing Optimistic People
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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Brain Creative Use
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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Lasts Wife Years

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