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Russell Simmons

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
I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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Missing Prayer Yoga
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.
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Fall Law Rap
If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
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Breath Decision Remember
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Answers Lucky Platform
The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.
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Grace Mind Thinking
No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
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Change Changing Optimistic People
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
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
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
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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People Rap White
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
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Hollywood Incredibly Thinking
Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Attract Everything Needs
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better… they’re better people, right? They’re segregated. It’s self segregated in some cases, but there’s nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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People Self Thinking
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
Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.
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Chasing Realizing Running

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