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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

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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
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Record Producer
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Queens
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Russell Wendell Simmons
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