Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI couldn’t guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid with ADD.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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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.
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Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
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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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I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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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.
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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.
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I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
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Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
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