Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
RUSSELL SIMMONSWhen you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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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.
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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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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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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When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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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.
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Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.
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It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.
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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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I would like to employ more people but I don’t want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I’m working on that.
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Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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