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Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

Russell Simmons

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

Meditation Missing Yoga
I think if you’re open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you’re closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Journey Running Thinking
Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Enough Moving People
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
The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

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

Culture Giving Hollywood
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Animal Cigarette Smoking
Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Gangsta Government Rapper
No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Dream Jobs Trying
[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

Artist Events People
I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Bills Car Pay
I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Hollywood Waiting Want
You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Anything Opportunity Waiting
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
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Giver Inspirational Karma
Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Happen Make Money

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

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