You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
RUSSELL SIMMONSMy wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
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It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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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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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 always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I’m not the only one who says it. It’s something I adopted and I believe.
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I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
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I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
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When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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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.
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I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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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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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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