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I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
Russell Simmons
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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
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Russell Wendell Simmons
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It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
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If you play basketball, you get into the zone. You can't miss. That's the expansive mindset we're all seeking. But that only comes when the mind is quiet and separate from the noise. And the greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.
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The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.
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Meditation helps everything.
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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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Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.
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There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
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You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.
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That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
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I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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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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The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a hard job. That person will be eager to get started, no matter what kind of work is in front of her, because she understands that she's doing God's work. And when you're working for God, nothing is too hard.
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Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.
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The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.
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I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great.
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A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.
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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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I'm lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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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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