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The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

Russell Simmons

Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Dream Perceive Realize
I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Bills Car Pay
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Complete Intention Oscars
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
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
As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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Long Moving Vision
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
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
There is a subject – there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that’s sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Artist Reflection Sex Something
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Buddhist Men Thinking
I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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Communities People Suffering
I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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Choices Feels President
I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Missing Prayer Yoga
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
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Country President Support
I can’t get my medicine.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Health Issue Medicine

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