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[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it’s a big success story for everyone – except the music industry itself.

Russell Simmons

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

Opportunity Share World
I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
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Meditation Missing Yoga
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Acknowledge Cost Mistake
We need to hear everyone. We need dialogue between police and the community. They’re angry. They’re hurt. A dialogue can cause a shift in consciousness in the person if he’s understanding you and listening.
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Community Hurt Understanding
You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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Development Life Self Want
My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
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Artist Creative Culture
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
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
I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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Bills Car Pay
There’s one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.
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Issues Long Police
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.
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Culture Hollywood Urban
You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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Able People Thinking
I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
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Hollywood Waiting Want
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
I don’t know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It’s the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Benefits Favor Trying
As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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Long Moving Vision

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it’s a big success story for everyone – except the music industry itself.

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[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it’s a big success story for everyone – except the music industry itself.

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