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Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.

Russell Simmons

I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Hollywood Waiting Want
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Democracy People Sight
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Daddy Family Funny
I can’t get my medicine.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Health Issue Medicine
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Break Through Digging Wall
I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Community Empowering People
Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Artist Differences Wise
You have to be present, awake and happy now.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Awake Happy Now Present
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Artist Reflection Sex Something
Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Exists Involved Own
It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Fall Law Rap
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
Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Clouds Labels Vision
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Biggest Changed Lobbyist Overseas
As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Long Moving Vision
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Country President Support

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