It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
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Good givers are great getters.
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The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”
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Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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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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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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I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
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I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
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You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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