Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.
DIANA ROSSSo every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can’t change the songs; people still want to hear “Lady Sings the Blues” and they still want to hear some of the oldies.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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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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Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don’t hold on to that.
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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 want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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I don’t think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.
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They 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.
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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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You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!
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I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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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 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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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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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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I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
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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.
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I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don’t think people want to see the old show all the time.
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Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they’d probably say yes, she’s great, but.
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
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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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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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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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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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