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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

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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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Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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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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I'm lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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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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[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.
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But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!
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I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.
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I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.
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I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive.
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I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations.
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When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
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