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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.

Russell Simmons

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Development Life Self Want
[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it’s a big success story for everyone – except the music industry itself.
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Artist Events People
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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Beach Hbo Years
If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
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Compassion Jobs Running
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Country Inspiration Writing
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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Community Empowering People
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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People Process Steps
Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Hard Hustle Out Work
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Diversity Oscars Thinking
A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian.
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Broken Color Justice
I don’t fault business. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Compassion Remember Running
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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Issues Long Police
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
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Creative Focus People
The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.
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Brain Gray Matter Stress

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