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Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

Russell Simmons

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Trying Voice
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Artist Reflection Sex Something
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Heartbeat Poetry Soundtracks
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Answers Lucky Platform
Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Artist Differences Wise
You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

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

Culture Rap Thinking
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Buckets Giving Soul
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Goal Simple Trying
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Giving Happiness Keys
I 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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Community Empowering People
They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Giving Hollywood
I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Disclosure Kind Persons
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?
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Elected Justice President System
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Black Hollywood White
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Art Form Noise Stillness

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

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