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I've been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I'm a big supporter.

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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
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Queens
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Russell Wendell Simmons
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I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great.
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Every time I go into a new venture, I find a rabbi who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit.
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It's always marketeers building their own careers.
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I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.
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I'm lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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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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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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They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
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The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.
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Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.
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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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I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.
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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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