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Being A Thoughtful Vegan Makes Our Time On This Earth More Peaceful And Joyous, Because You Get To Have A Hand In Promoting And Increasing The Happiness, Good Health And Well-being Of Others -- Both Animal And Human -- Rather Than Being An Instrument Of Their Suffering And Death.

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Being A Thoughtful Vegan

Russell Simmons

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Being A Thoughtful Vegan Makes Our Time On This Earth More Peaceful And Joyous, Because You Get To Have A Hand In Promoting And Increasing The Happiness, Good Health And Well-being Of Others -- Both Animal And Human -- Rather Than Being An Instrument Of Their Suffering And Death.

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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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If You Talk About The Prison-industrial Complex, I've Fought Against The Prison-industrial Complex When I Called For A Repeal Of The Rockefeller Drug Laws. The Biggest Impediment To Get The Laws Changed Was The Lobbyists. Whether You're Talking About Healthcare, Jobs Going Overseas, Or Tax Reform, You're Always Coming Up Against Lobbyists.

I'm Lucky That I Have A Platform That I Can Answer My Own Questions.

I Feel The Choices Our President Barack Obama Is Making Now Are Safer And Better.

"...piling Up Zeros In Your Bank Account, Or Cars In Your Driveway, Won't In And Of Itself Make You Successful. Rather, True Success Is Based On A Constant Flow Of Giving And Recieving. In Fact, If You Look Up Affluence In The Dictionary, You'll See Its Root Is A Latin Phrase Meaning "to Flow With Abundance". So In Order To Be Truly Affluent, You Must Always Let What You Have Recieved Flow Back Into The World."

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Every Day Set The Simple Goal Of Trying To Be More Awake And Less Distracted.

The Best Defense For Any Group Of People Is What We Do To Defend Other People.

I Couldn't Guarantee That Someone Could Get Off Their Medication. But I Suspect That Meditation Instead Of Ritalin Would Change The Life Of Any Kid With Add.

Guarantees That

I'm Always Surrounded By Smart Talented People. I Had Talented Partners. Stan Latham For One. Talent Scouts.

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Young People, When They're Left Alone, Always Want To Have Compassion, And They Always Want To Give. They Always Want To Help People Who Are Less Fortunate.

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People Build Themselves Up Before You Even Have To Deal With Them.

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The Stuff I Do, I Do Every Day, And I've Been Doing It For Long Periods Of Time. I Don't Start And Quit-ever. I Start And Stay On It.

You Know, Sometimes People Never Get To Learn How Successful They Could Have Been Because They Give Up Too Easily. If I've Learned One Thing In All My Years In The Business, It's That Often Things Don't Work Out The Way You Want At First. But That Doesn't Mean You Should Give Up.

You Need Black [people] Sometimes To Understand Things About Black Culture.

Anyone Whose Mission Is Keeping People Apart Is Swimming Against A Very Strong Tide.

Always Focus On Your Effort, Instead Of The Results Of That Effort.

We Want The Government To Be Controlled By All The People, Not By The Richest 1%. That's Always Been The First Demand. That's A Simple Enough Message, And I Think It's Pretty Clear Now, Even Though Much Of The Media Has Been Disingenuous In Its Coverage. We Don't Want The Heads Of The Biggest Industries To Make All The Decisions, Because They're Not For The People. They're For The Corporations. Power To The People!

Hollywood Is Full Of Very Liberal People, But It Still Has An Infrastructure That Needs To Be Broken.

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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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I'm A Big Supporter Of President Obama.

President Obama

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There's One Overriding Issue, Namely, That We Live In A Police State So Long As The Police Get To Police Themselves. And That Is Why Cops Go Unindicted.

Labels Cloud Our Vision And Distract Us From Seeing How Much We Have In Common With One Another.

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Nowhere In The Bible, Koran, Or Torah Does It Say, "if You Curse, Then You're Going To Hell." But Everywhere It Says That If You Kill, You're Going To Wherever They Send You, Depending On The Religion.

I Was Literally Calling My Customers Who Were Complaining On Social Media And Having A Dialog With Them, And Sending Them Money.

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I've Been Blessed To Find People Who Are Smarter Than I Am, And They Help Me To Execute The Vision I Have.

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I'm A Full Disclosure Kind Of Person.

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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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Not Every Move You Make Has To Be A Great Leap

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Inspirational Running

Afraid Of Failure

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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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It's All About The Work. Nothing Is Going To Fall Into Your Lap. If You Want To Be A Lawyer, See Yourself As A Lawyer, Go To The Library And Start Learning The Law. If You Want To Be A Rapper, Start Rapping And Get Out There. Live Your Life As If You Already Are Where You Want To Be.

There Is No Happiness Until The Mind Is Still. The Cause Of All Sickness And Sadness Is The Fluctuation Of The Mind.

The Politicians Already In Office Don't Want To Change. A Few Might Have It In Their Hearts To Change And To Start Working For The People, But Even Some Of The Most Progressive Politicians Are Silent Because They Know That The Candidate With The Most Money Wins.

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You Know, The Diversity That America Has Is So Special. It's Starting To Really Become A Cool Thing For Young People.

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The Book 'do You!' Is About Your Inner Voice. And When You Connect To That Voice Then You - Then The Freedom Comes. And We're Only Here To Be Happy. So Happy Makes Money. Money Doesn't Make Happy.

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Money Doesn't Make U Happy .. But Happy Makes You Money.

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I've Been Thinking A Lot About Gay Marriage. I'm A Big Supporter.

Meditation Can Reintroduce You To The Part That's Been Missing.

Quiet Time Is The Key. We Have Hundreds Of Thousands Of Kids Around The Country Meditating Through The David Lynch Foundation.

There Are So Many Urban Pop Ideas That Are Underserved, And I Think Hollywood Doesn't See Us And Misses The Opportunity To Integrate.

One Positive Thought Can Change Your Whole Day.

Positive Thoughts

Black Actors On The Road, Flying Around The Country Working As Poets. Those People Are Inspirations For Millions Of Kids Who Write.

In The End, The Overriding Factor In Whether Or Not You Realize Your Dreams Is Going To Be You. Not The World. You.

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At The Shock Of A Joke, Everything Disappears But The Present Moment.

Mistakes Only Cost You When You Don't Acknowledge Them.

Your Purpose Is To Act On The Resources God Gives You. If God Gives You A Bucket Of Fish, You Have To Distribute Those Fish. If You Don't, They're Going To Rot, Attract A Bunch Of Flies, And Start Stinking Up Your Soul.

I Want To Fight Poverty And Ignorance And Give Opportunity To Those People Who Are Locked Out.

If It Feels Like Your Life Has Become A Nasty, Brackish Puddle Of Water, Never Forget That You Do Possess The Power To Transform It Into A Beautiful, Rushing Stream That Will Carry You To Enlightenment.

No One Wants To Sell To Just 12% Of The Population For The Entire Length Of Their Careers. It Creates A Difficult And Less-profitable Environment. But Hollywood Has Lived With That Limiting Mantra, And Only A Few Black Stars Have Managed To Break Through.

Give What You Want To Receive. If You Want Happiness, Make Others Happy.

Make Others Happy

If You Wake Up Deciding What You Want To Give Versus What You're Going To Get, You Become A More Successful Person. In Other Words, If You Want To Make Money, You Have To Help Someone Else Make Money.

America, You Know, They Always Separate People Because Of Race. They've Been Able To Convince, 'the Niggers Are Coming.' You Know, The Diversity That America Has Is So Special. It's Starting To Really Become A Cool Thing For Young People. Not Only Because There Are More Mixes Of People, But Because People Are More Open-minded About Each Other. So I Think In The Future, America Has A Great, Great Opportunity, And Mostly Because Of Hip-hop.

The Always-connected Culture Isn't As Much A Contributor As Grace Might Think. The Nervous Mind, The Monkey Mind, Will Create Its Own Noise. It Doesn't Need A New Toy.

Respect Your Parents. What They Tell You Is True. Hard Work, Dedication And Faith Will Get You Anything. Imagination Will Drive Itself. You Can Get Anything You Want, But You Have To Have Faith Behind All Your Ideas. Stick To Your Goals And Have An Undying Faith.

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!"

You Just Have To Pay Attention To What People Need And What Has Not Been Done.

Learn To Let Your Thoughts Exist On Their Own Without Getting Too Involved In Them.

That Really Is The Best Part Of Being A Dad. You Remember What's Important In Life.

86% Of Its Audience Was Made Up Of People Of Color. That Tells You That The Full Potential Of Many Black Stars Won't Be Realized Until Their Audiences Are Fully Integrated.

If You Give A Good Thing To The World, Then Over Time Your Karma Will Be Good, And You'll Receive Good.

I Have 2 Million Twitter Followers. Some Of Those People Are Also Yogis And Activists And People Who Really Go Out And Make A Difference. I Do As Much As I Can With My Voice. It's Effortless In Some Cases. I Try To Remind Everybody That They Have That Kind Of Voice.

The Seconds Of Presence Are Where Most Inspiration Comes. There Are Sunsets That Promote It.

I'm Still Moving Around.we're Building A Platform To Put A Song Out Every Week For 52 Weeks Called Add52.

Many Of My Biggest Business Endeavors Were Failures Before They Became A Success. Some Failed For As Long As Six Years Before They Hit. Everyone Around Me Thought I Was Crazy. You Just Have To Stay At It.

I Want To Do And I'm Giving All The Profits To Charity, Is To Teach People To Meditate. All It Takes Is A Little Bit Of Patience.

Running All My Different Companies Has Turned Out To Be A Lot Easier Because I Mediate Twice A Day And Go To Yoga Every Day.

Hip-hop Is A Voice For Voiceless Poor People.

But Rich Or Poor, Black Or White, None Of Us Are Entitled To Anything.

Well, It's The Last Step Of The Civil Rights Movement: You Know, Wrap Your Hands Around Some Money.

You'll See A Lot Of Funny Stuff, You'll See A Lot Of Daddy Knows Best Stuff, You'll See A Lot Of Me And My Wife Trying To Hold The Family Together.

I Don't Want To Wait For Hollywood To Decide That What I Do Is Good.

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The Conditions Of Suffering That Exist Today In Our Impoverished Communities Are Not Acceptable. The Reflection Of Those Conditions Are Less Concerning To Me. And I Work Everyday About Changing The Conditions.

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