The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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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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I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
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The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?
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It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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I can’t get my medicine.
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I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.
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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.
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Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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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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The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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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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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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A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
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The politicians already in office don’t want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start working for the people, but even some of the most progressive politicians are silent because they know that the candidate with the most money wins.
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Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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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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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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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.
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