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The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

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
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
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Choices Gratefulness Practice
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Answers Lucky Platform
Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.
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Happy Make Money
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
Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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Goal Ultimate Ultimate Goal
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
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
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
I can’t get my medicine.
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Health Issue Medicine
Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
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Enough Never Change Resilient
When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
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Giving Reservations World
A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
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Hurt Laughing People

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

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