I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThe soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.
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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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I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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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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[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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Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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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 learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.
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The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
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I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
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A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.
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