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.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.
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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.
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You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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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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I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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We need to hear everyone. We need dialogue between police and the community. They’re angry. They’re hurt. A dialogue can cause a shift in consciousness in the person if he’s understanding you and listening.
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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 know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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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.
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I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
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The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.
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I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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