Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
RUSSELL SIMMONSIt’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
-
-
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
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 -
Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Everyone’s part of a team that develops over the years and gives people chances. There have been some good moments watching people develop.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
The less you need, the more you attract.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that’s when you’re able to think and learn.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS