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.
RUSSELL SIMMONSIf you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
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You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.
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You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
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I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
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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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The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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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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Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
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I 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.
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Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.
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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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