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Donald Trump’s not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.

Russell Simmons

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
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.
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Fire Genius Records
I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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Radio Records Way
It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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Building Careers
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
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Acknowledge Cost Mistake
When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
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Giving Reservations World
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Dream Perceive Realize
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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Black Needs People
[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
I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.
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Form Sorry Violence
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
I’m always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
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People Smart Talent
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
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Art Express Way Yourself
As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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Long Moving Vision
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

Donald Trump’s not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.

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