Russell Simmons Quotes

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.

Russell Simmons

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A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.

John Boyle O'Reilly

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I think something that's really important to me is trying to do what I can from my position of power that comes with having a social media platform to dismantle certain systems that I think are really gross and harmful.

Amandla Stenberg

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But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

Stephen Greenblatt

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I liked Rajamouli's 'Eega.' He is a great technician, and I would be happy to get a chance to work with him.

Sridevi

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I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

Tom Sizemore

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Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Ruhollah Khomeini

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I'm not great on the florals. I think you've got to wear what you're happy in and that is fun but isn't mutton dressed up as lamb.

Mary Berry

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When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

Lowell Bergman

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There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.

Lori Foster

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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Josef Albers

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You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

Dhani Harrison

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I want my music to do the explaining.

Demi Lovato

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