Top 100 Russell Simmons Quotes

#1. If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.

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#2. When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

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#3. Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

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#4. Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

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#5. 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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#6. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.

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#7. 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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#8. Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

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#9. Always try to be yourself.

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#10. 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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#11. Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.

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#12. 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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#13. I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

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#14. I'm a creative guy. And I only do businesses as a result of like I've - I'm try to find what my gifts are and give them immediately. As soon as I get them and I understand, I give them back.

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#15. Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.

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#16. I want to get involved in things that makes a difference in peoples lives and lifts them up. I don't want to be a part of anything that's not inspiring or helpful to the community that I'm serving.

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#17. By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

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#18. Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit.

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#19. Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!

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#20. If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

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#21. I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.

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#22. 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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#23. Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it.

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#24. I produced Run DMC. I produced some early records, lots of records early on.

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#25. Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

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#26. I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.

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#27. Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.

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#28. 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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#29. I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: 'I am somebody who has always been helped.' A little thing like that can make people believe it.

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#30. That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

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#31. I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.

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#32. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

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#33. 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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#34. I go to yoga every day. I meditate every morning.

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#35. Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

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#36. You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up.

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#37. You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you ... happiness is your natural state.

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#38. I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.

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#39. I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

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#40. The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.

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#41. 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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#42. But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.

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#43. It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.

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#44. Quit taking, start giving.

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#45. The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.

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#46. Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

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#47. The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a "hard" job. That person will be eager to get started, no matter what kind of work is in front of her, because she understands that she's doing God's work. And when you're working for God, nothing is too hard.

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#48. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful.

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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. No matter what you're doing, try to work at that task like it's your dream job.

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#52. Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.

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#53. The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.

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#54. Giving, not trading or selling, is the basis of success. The most rewarding thing you can do is just to give the world something good. And ultimately you will be paid so much more for that gift than it you had tried to trade it for something else.

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#55. No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.

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#56. I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I'm not a vegan for health reasons - although obviously I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that's true. But I'm a vegan for compassionate reasons.

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#57. To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

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#58. No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

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#59. Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

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#60. I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.

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#61. Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

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#62. Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them.

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#63. Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.

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#64. In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask those who feel that giving freedom to others somehow binds you, to please take a good look at what you are standing behind

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#65. I don't eat anything that runs away from me.

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#66. The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

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#67. Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.

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#68. I've been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I'm a big supporter.

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#69. It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

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#70. Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all wrong. It's all the same.

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#71. I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.

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#72. 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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#73. Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.

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#74. It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.

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#75. In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.

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#76. Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.

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#77. Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

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#78. The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.

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#79. You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

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#80. If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.

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#81. I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

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#82. A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.

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#83. Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

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#84. Get your hustle on ... Hard work is easy, working out is hard.

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#85. I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

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#86. You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

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#87. Good givers are great getters.

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#88. You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.

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#89. Being a thoughtful vegan makes our time on this Earth more peaceful and joyous, because you get to have a hand in promoting and increasing the happiness, good health and well-being of others
both animal and human
rather than being an instrument of their suffering and death.

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#90. I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great.

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#91. The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

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#92. You have to learn to laugh all the time. It's a practice of life. It's a practice of happiness.

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#93. I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.

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#94. When you give without reservation, you'll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.

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#95. There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.

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#96. As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.

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#97. If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.

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#98. Actresses are kind of a little crazy.

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#99. Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

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#100. I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.

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