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Everyone’s part of a team that develops over the years and gives people chances. There have been some good moments watching people develop.

Russell Simmons

I ask everyone – white Hollywood and black Hollywood – to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That’s where they’re going to learn from each other, and that’s where they’re going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.
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Black Hollywood White
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Animal Cigarette Smoking
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
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
I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.
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Cooper Education Fun Girl Kids University
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Answers Lucky Platform
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
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Hard Hustle Out Work
I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
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Hollywood Waiting Want
The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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Opening Opportunity World
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
Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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Broken Hollywood People
If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.
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Beautiful Encouragement Rushing
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
I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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Hell Now Right Vegan

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