I couldn’t guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid with ADD.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.
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You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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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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I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That’s why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
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You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
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I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I’m a good giver without expectations.
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
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My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
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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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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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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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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
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It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I’m an optimist.
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You’ll see a lot of funny stuff, you’ll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you’ll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.
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No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
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I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
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The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?
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The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.
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