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 ROSSInstead 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.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!
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You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
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If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
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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 have a lust for life.
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My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
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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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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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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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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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If I do an interview, then I take full responsibility. I figure I’m not going to talk to anyone that I think is unethical anyway.
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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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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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Being a parent is very important to me.
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I have never gotten into the label thing.
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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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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 don’t think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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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 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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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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