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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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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.
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I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It's effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice.
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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.
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Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'
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I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.
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Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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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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Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.
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Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.
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Service is the key to everything in life.
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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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I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
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I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive.
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I ask everyone - white Hollywood and black Hollywood - to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That's where they're going to learn from each other, and that's where they're going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.
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People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.
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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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There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that.
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If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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You just have to smile and breathe. You do the best you can with what you have and that's it.
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