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Russell Simmons

The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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Opening Opportunity World
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I’m not the only one who says it. It’s something I adopted and I believe.
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Believe Causes Suffering
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
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 Jobs Running
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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Lasts Wife Years
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Dream Perceive Realize
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
Cruelty is cruelty, whether it’s cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.
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Cat Children Dog
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
Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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Hip Hop Life Things
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
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 poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That’s why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
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People Rap White
[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it’s a big success story for everyone – except the music industry itself.
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Artist Events People

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