I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThose who need nothing attract everything.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
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You have to be present, awake and happy now.
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I don’t fault business. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
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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.
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Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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I don’t know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It’s the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.
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There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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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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I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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I think it’s very important. I’ve gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It’s something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.
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But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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