Top 100 Quotes About Russell Simmons
#1. Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.
Michael Eric Dyson
#2. I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
Kevin Hart
#3. I admire Russell Simmons. He is a successful dude that has done a little bit of everything. He keeps it moving, and he's still doing things. Larry David is also amazing. He is honest and blunt. A creative genius.
J. B. Smoove
#4. I always wanted to do a deal with Russell Simmons, and now I've got my signature on a piece of paper with his.
El-P
#5. To have mentors and moguls like Russell Simmons and Chuck D pushing me forward and empowering my movement makes me all the more eager to continue pursuing my dream to make my mark on hip hop music and culture.
Lazarus Of Bethany
#6. I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it.
Yo Gotti
#7. 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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#8. Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
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#9. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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#10. I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.
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#11. 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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#12. It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.
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#13. Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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#15. 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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#16. I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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#17. Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.
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#18. People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.
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#19. I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.
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#20. 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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#21. I'm born into the cycle of giving that we're all born into, and I recognize it. So just because something is a good business, I'm not a business guy. I'm a creative guy.
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#22. Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty
Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.
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#24. That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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#25. 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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#26. I don't know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It's the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.
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#27. Stay in your lane. If you're good enough, people will move to you.
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#28. I'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
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#29. Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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#30. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful.
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#31. It's very simple: When you're working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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#33. 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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#35. I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.
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#36. Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
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#37. You'll see a lot of funny stuff, you'll see a lot of daddy-knows-best stuff, you'll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.
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#38. The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.
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#39. The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.
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#41. I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference.
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#43. 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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#44. My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I've given.
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#45. But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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#46. I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.
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#47. 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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#48. The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.
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#52. You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you ... happiness is your natural state.
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#53. I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
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#54. The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
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#55. The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.
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#56. Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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#63. 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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#65. Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it ... Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.
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#71. Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.
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#73. When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you
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#74. Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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#75. What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
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#76. The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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#80. I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.
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#81. Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer.
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#82. 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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#83. There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas.
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#84. I don't like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that's most inspiring, because it's at that second that you're aware of "the infinite everything."
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#85. Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.
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#87. I produced Run DMC. I produced some early records, lots of records early on.
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#88. I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. If you are a good giver, you will be great getter. The less you need, the more you attract.
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#92. I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.
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#93. 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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#95. 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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#96. You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.
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#98. Never change for the mainstream - stay in your lane, and if you're talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
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#99. 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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#100. Decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world.
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