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.
RUSSELL SIMMONSLearn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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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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I’m always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
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I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there’s less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.
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Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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I have faith in people and our government ultimately to do the right thing. And to my brothers and sisters in California, I’m there with you every step of the way until that day comes…
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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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Cruelty is cruelty, whether it’s cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.
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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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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
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A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.
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The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.
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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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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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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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Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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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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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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I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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The stuff I do, I do every day, and I’ve been doing it for long periods of time. I don’t start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
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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.
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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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