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.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.
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You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
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I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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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 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 don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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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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Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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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 applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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