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I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.

Russell Simmons

I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Rap Thinking
My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
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Animal Running Texas
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
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Artist Different People Sharing Thinking
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
No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
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Dream Jobs Trying
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
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
I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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Disclosure Kind Persons
Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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Enough Moving People
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
Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.
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Believe Business Success
There is a subject – there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that’s sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
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Artist Reflection Sex Something
The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.
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Meditation Noise Tools
I don’t fault business. 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 Remember Running
People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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People Saying Thinking
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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Lasts Wife Years

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