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That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

Russell Simmons

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Enough Never Change Resilient
You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Development Life Self Want
When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might’ve caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Anxiety Looks might
I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Calling Complaining Media
In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Dream Realizing World
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?
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Canditate Giving More Process
I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Express Free Hope People Themselves
Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Gangsta Government Rapper
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Giver Inspirational Karma
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Issues Long Police
No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Change Changing Optimistic People
If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.
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Beautiful Encouragement Rushing
I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Rap Thinking
I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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Animal Hurtful Thinking
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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Benefits Favor Trying
No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.
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Break Career Stars Through

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