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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

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Democracy People Sight
Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Hollywood Urban
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
I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Hell Now Right Vegan
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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Goal Simple Trying
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Self Thinking
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
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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People Rap White
I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Meditation Missing Yoga
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Trying Voice
It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I’m an optimist.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Brother Gay Heart
I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Rap Thinking
Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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Happen Make Money
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
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Acknowledge Cost Mistake

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

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