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If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.

Russell Simmons

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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Kids Running Want
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
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
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
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
Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.
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Country Keys Kids
Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
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Encouraging Inspirational Life
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
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
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
When the mind is totally still, there’s only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, “Oh my God! I’m clear! I love this!”
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Breathing Reality Yoga
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Complete Intention Oscars
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
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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Elected Justice President System
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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Diversity Oscars Thinking
You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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Happiness Laughing Practice

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