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I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.

Russell Simmons

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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Kids Running Want
You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Entrepreneur Real Sincere
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Complete Intention Oscars
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
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Brain Creative Use
[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
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Believe English Men Speak
Cruelty is cruelty, whether it’s cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.
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Cat Children Dog
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Art Form Noise Stillness
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?
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Elected Justice President System
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Animal Cigarette Smoking
That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
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Day Every My Thoughts Watches
I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
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Meditation Missing Yoga
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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People Process Steps
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

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