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Russell Simmons
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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
Entrepreneur
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Queens
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Russell Wendell Simmons
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There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.
Russell Simmons
Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.
Russell Simmons
There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas.
Russell Simmons
I know some people say Keep your eyes on the prize, but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you're going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you've got to keep your eyes focused on the path.
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Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
Russell Simmons
No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.
Russell Simmons
There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
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Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
Russell Simmons
What I would do to change this planet is have everyone meditate and look inside. Then we'd have a happier, more service-oriented, less-needy world.
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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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What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
Russell Simmons
I've been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I'm a big supporter.
Russell Simmons
Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them.
Russell Simmons
My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that it's a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, Aaaahhh, and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
Russell Simmons
Nowhere in the Bible, Koran, or Torah does it say, If you curse, then you're going to hell. But everywhere it says that if you kill, you're going to wherever they send you, depending on the religion.
Russell Simmons
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.
Russell Simmons
People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.
Russell Simmons
A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.
Russell Simmons
You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.
Russell Simmons
Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.
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