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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
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Russell Wendell Simmons
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Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.
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There are songs and melody that make you really happy. And there are spiritual gifts that you have - giving these gifts away sometimes gives you that feeling of inspiration. These seconds of awareness make you realize that any second can be your favorite one, and it really is up to you.
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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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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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That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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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.
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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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There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.
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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 don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good practice to eat anything that might run away from you.
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I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.
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I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive.
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Quit taking, start giving.
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I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.
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When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
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Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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People build themselves up before you even have to deal with them.
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