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Russell Simmons

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.
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Community Hard Reflection Work
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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People Smarter Surround Yourself
Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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Opportunity Share World
I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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Artist Jobs Thinking
Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Hard Hustle Out Work
People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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People Saying Thinking
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Educational Knowledge Running
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Animal Cigarette Smoking
If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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Break Through Digging Wall
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.
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People Self Thinking
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Complete Intention Oscars
Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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Goal Positivity Promoting
The politicians already in office don’t want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start working for the people, but even some of the most progressive politicians are silent because they know that the candidate with the most money wins.
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Heart Office Winning
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.
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Artist Reflection Sex Something
Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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Gangsta Government Rapper

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