I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
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More Russell Simmons Quotes
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I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I’m a good giver without expectations.
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The less you need, the more you attract.
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If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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I have faith in people and our government ultimately to do the right thing. And to my brothers and sisters in California, I’m there with you every step of the way until that day comes…
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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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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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When the mind is totally still, there’s only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, “Oh my God! I’m clear! I love this!”
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I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
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There is a subject – there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that’s sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
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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 signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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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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