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I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

Diana Ross

I really don’t think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that’s where they hung out with their friends.
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Children Friendship Music Myself Thinking
Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?
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Direction Life Path Shown Yourself
You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
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Determination Dreams Hard Work Inspirational People Yourself
I know that my fans want to know who I’m sleeping with, but it’s really none of their business.
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Business Fans Known Myself Privacy Sleep
I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don’t want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I’m not afraid to talk money.
DIANA ROSS

Afraid Learning Money Myself Talk Trust
With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I’m comfortable with money and it’s comfortable with me.
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Comfortable Fast Money Myself
I don’t have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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Movie Myself Sing
I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
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Greatness Myself Place Priority Right
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
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Greatness Myself Record Time
I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.
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Enjoyment Fun Life Myself Work
People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you’re not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.
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Book Name People Sales Writing Yourself
It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
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Build Intention Myself Park
My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
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Appearance Energy Family Myself
I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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Adoption Children Mom Myself
If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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Believe Friendship Inspirational Mountain Move Myself
You can have a lot of New York and still see what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think – like in China.
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Media Myself Possible Thinking World
What’s important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They’ll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.
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Business Daughter Education Important Live Myself
If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I.
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Cloud Dreams Forever Hold On Known Myself Togetherness Yourself
I’m a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I’ve really had to decide what’s important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
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Business Care Decision Health Life Myself Order Parents
Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it’s show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
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Best Black Business People Rhythm Sports Yourself
It’s easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.
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Feeling Myself Production Thinking Writing
I’d traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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Home Insane Lonely Myself Success Travel
I don’t judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they’re a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
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Color Discrimination Judge Myself People Person Skin
I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what’s going on in my life.
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Heart Life Myself Selection Thinking Try
I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.
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Future Music Myself Studio
I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I’m not involved in their careers because I’ve learned that it’s important for them to stand on their own two feet. They’ll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.
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Better Career Daughter Feeling Freedom Learning Myself Proud
I just appreciate still having the longevity that I’ve had in my career.
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Appreciation Career Gratitude Myself

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

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