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.
DIANA ROSSMy name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.
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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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I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
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One thing you cannot control is nature.
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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 majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.
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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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It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
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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 know that my fans want to know who I’m sleeping with, but it’s really none of their business.
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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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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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If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
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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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