Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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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.
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I 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.
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The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.
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If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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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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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That’s why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
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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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Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
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And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
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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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Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.
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American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
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