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Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Record Producer
Television Producer
Writer
Queens
New York
Russell Wendell Simmons
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Simple
Less
Trying
Attentiveness
Every
Day
Distracted
Distraction
Awake

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The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.
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What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
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Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!
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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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Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.
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