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You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

Russell Simmons

I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Choices Feels President
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.
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Beach Hbo Years
Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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Hands Movement Rights
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
[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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Artist Events People
Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.
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Country Keys Kids
A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian.
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Broken Color Justice
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.
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Ballet Country People Suffering
And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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Increase People Positive Vibrations
Meditation helps everything.
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Everything Helping Meditation
The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you’re talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you’re always coming up against lobbyists.
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Biggest Changed Lobbyist Overseas
Everyone’s part of a team that develops over the years and gives people chances. There have been some good moments watching people develop.
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Chances Develop Everyone People
I don’t fault business. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
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Compassion Remember Running
There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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Culture Hollywood Missing
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Complete Intention Oscars
Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Hard Hustle Out Work

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