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.
DIANA ROSSI have a lust for life.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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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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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.
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If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
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When I’m working I actually forget to eat. I don’t eat sweets because I don’t care about them. I have no real secrets. I just realize that as I get older I should stay strong so I exercise more.
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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.
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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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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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I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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I just appreciate still having the longevity that I’ve had in my career.
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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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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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Hair has always been important.
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I think that if my voice for some reason changes – because your voice does change – then it’s time for me not to sing.
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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 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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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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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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It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
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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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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
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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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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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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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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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