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Russell Simmons

I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Believe English Men Speak
It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Building Careers
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that’s when you’re able to think and learn.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Anxiety Insomnia Thinking
That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Day Every My Thoughts Watches
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Artist Different People Sharing Thinking
There’s one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.
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Issues Long Police
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Complete Intention Oscars
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

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

Choices Feels President
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Circumstance Done Matter
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Rap White
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 difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Pain Rap Rock
I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Believe Inspirational People
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter

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