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Russell Simmons

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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Break Through Digging Wall
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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People Smarter Surround Yourself
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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Ballet Country People Suffering
I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
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Brain Creative Use
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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Anxiety Insomnia Thinking
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
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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Pain Rap Rock
You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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Happiness Happy Inspirational
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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Artist Differences Wise
Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
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Encouraging Inspirational Life
If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.
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Beautiful Encouragement Rushing
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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Long Running Stuff
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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Goal Positivity Promoting
I don’t fault business. 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 Remember Running
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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Fire Genius Records

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