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I think if you’re open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you’re closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

Russell Simmons

Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Acknowledge Cost Mistake
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Diversity Oscars Thinking
You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Business Entrepreneur People
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that’s when you’re able to think and learn.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Anxiety Insomnia Thinking
You’ll see a lot of funny stuff, you’ll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you’ll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Daddy Family Funny
I think when you’re very dedicated to something and you’re engaged fully, you become a giver.
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Dedicated Giver Thinking
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Art Form Noise Stillness
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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Cooper Education Fun Girl Kids University
If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Break Through Digging Wall
It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Building Careers
Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Hollywood Urban
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Artist Different People Sharing Thinking
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
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.
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Express Free Hope People Themselves
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Complete Intention Oscars
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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Black Hollywood White

I think if you’re open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you’re closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

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