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No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

Russell Simmons

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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
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Queens
New York
Russell Wendell Simmons
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