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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.

Diana Ross

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
DIANA ROSS

Believe Dreams Myself Time
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.
DIANA ROSS

Business Daughter Education Important Live Myself
I don’t like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
DIANA ROSS

Artist Make Up Myself
I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I’m dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It’s certainly my intention to do it.
DIANA ROSS

Death Intention Live Myself Story
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
Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it’s show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
DIANA ROSS

Best Black Business People Rhythm Sports 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.
DIANA ROSS

Determination Dreams Hard Work Inspirational People Yourself
I listen to most everything that’s out there because I need to stay aware of what’s happening in the industry.
DIANA ROSS

Industry Listening Myself Need Stay
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.
DIANA ROSS

Feeling Myself Production Thinking Writing
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 ROSS

Color Discrimination Judge Myself People Person Skin
I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
DIANA ROSS

Adoption Children Mom Myself
My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
DIANA ROSS

Myself Name Purpose Right
I don’t know what my life would have been like if I’d never gotten into show business.
DIANA ROSS

Business Life Myself Show
My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
DIANA ROSS

Appearance Energy Family Myself
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?
DIANA ROSS

Direction Life Path Shown Yourself
One thing you cannot control is nature.
DIANA ROSS

Control Nature One Liner

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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