I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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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.
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I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
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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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I would like to employ more people but I don’t want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I’m working on that.
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When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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I ask everyone – white Hollywood and black Hollywood – to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That’s where they’re going to learn from each other, and that’s where they’re going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.
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I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
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I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there’s less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.
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You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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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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