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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.

Russell Simmons

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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
Entrepreneur
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Record Producer
Television Producer
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Queens
New York
Russell Wendell Simmons
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I don't like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that's most inspiring, because it's at that second that you're aware of the infinite everything.
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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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It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
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They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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