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Russell Simmons
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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
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Entrepreneur
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Queens
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Russell Wendell Simmons
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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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There are no failures, only quitters.
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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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Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend every day making sure that they know this.
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As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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86% of its audience was made up of people of color. That tells you that the full potential of many black stars won't be realized until their audiences are fully integrated.
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My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
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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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Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.
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I don't want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
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I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.
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There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas.
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I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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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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Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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Quit taking, start giving.
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Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
Russell Simmons
I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.
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