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.
RUSSELL SIMMONSGood givers are great getters.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better… they’re better people, right? They’re segregated. It’s self segregated in some cases, but there’s nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.
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But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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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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There are no failures, only quitters.
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Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
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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.
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Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
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