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Russell Simmons

I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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Hip Hips Hop Offensive
I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.
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Community Empowering People
If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
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Compassion Jobs Running
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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Gone Important Thinking
Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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Great Leap Moving
The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.
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Grace Mind Thinking
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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People Process Steps
Everyone’s part of a team that develops over the years and gives people chances. There have been some good moments watching people develop.
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Chances Develop Everyone People
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Acknowledge Cost Mistake
You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
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Anything Opportunity Waiting
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you’re talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you’re always coming up against lobbyists.
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Biggest Changed Lobbyist Overseas
I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.
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Form Sorry Violence
I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
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Believe Inspirational People

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