I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
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The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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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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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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I don’t know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It’s the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.
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I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
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That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
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Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.
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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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Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.
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I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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I think if you’re open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you’re closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
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If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
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Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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