I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
RUSSELL SIMMONSLast year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
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I think it’s very important. I’ve gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It’s something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.
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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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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.
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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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Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
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Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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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 have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.
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I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
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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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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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