No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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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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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
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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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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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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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They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
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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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Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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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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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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I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.
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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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When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
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And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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We need to hear everyone. We need dialogue between police and the community. They’re angry. They’re hurt. A dialogue can cause a shift in consciousness in the person if he’s understanding you and listening.
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Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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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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I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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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.
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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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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.
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If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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