My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn’t want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn’t want there to be any problems.
DIANA ROSSThey tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
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I can be a better me than anyone can.
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Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.
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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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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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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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It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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So I’m not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I’m happy that I have them; I think it’s good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
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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.
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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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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don’t want possessions to hold me down.
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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.
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A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I’m just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.
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If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
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My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.
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I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
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You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!
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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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I don’t know what my life would have been like if I’d never gotten into show business.
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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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I listen to most everything that’s out there because I need to stay aware of what’s happening in the industry.
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My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don’t fight about it.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.
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