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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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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Record Producer
Television Producer
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Queens
New York
Russell Wendell Simmons
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If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.
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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.
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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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86% of its audience was made up of people of color. That tells you that the full potential of many black stars won't be realized until their audiences are fully integrated.
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The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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Success is happiness. People say, Oh that sounds corny. No matter how rich you are you can only sit your ass in one seat at a time. You have to be comfortable in that seat.
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Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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I don't miss a day of yoga. I don't miss my meditation... They're way more important.
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If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists.
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Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.
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I don't use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it's never because I use my brain.
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I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good practice to eat anything that might run away from you.
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Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.
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Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
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I'm a full disclosure kind of person.
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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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The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
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Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things.
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