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At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment.

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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
Business Person
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Record Producer
Television Producer
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Queens
New York
Russell Wendell Simmons
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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.
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Service is the key to everything in life.
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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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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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Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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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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I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.
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[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
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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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When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
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I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.
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I don't use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it's never because I use my brain.
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There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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No matter what we've done or where we've been, every single one of us can change.
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The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
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I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.
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That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
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