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They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.

Russell Simmons

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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Fire Genius Records
No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Dream Jobs Trying
Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Opportunity Share World
The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Beach Hbo Years
I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Radio Records Way
Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Encouraging Inspirational Life
I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Disclosure Kind Persons
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Creative Focus People
Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Christianity Racism Sickness
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Process Steps
My 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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Animal Running Texas
When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Giving Reservations World
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Ballet Country People Suffering
I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Rap Thinking
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Country President Support
Meditation helps everything.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Everything Helping Meditation

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