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I don’t know what my life would have been like if I’d never gotten into show business.

Diana Ross

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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Business Care Decision Health Life Myself Order Parents
One thing you cannot control is nature.
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Control Nature One Liner
I don’t know what my life would have been like if I’d never gotten into show business.
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Business Life Myself Show
I’d traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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Home Insane Lonely Myself Success Travel
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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Education Explore Myself Place Travel
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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Heart Life Myself Selection Thinking Try
I don’t have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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Movie Myself Sing
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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Future Myself Need Past Sight Work Yourself
My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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Career Children Myself
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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Discipline Help Necessary Tools
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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Myself Reason Sing Thinking Voice
I have a lust for life.
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Life Lust One Liner
If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I.
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Cloud Dreams Forever Hold On Known Myself Togetherness Yourself
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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Father Hard Myself Problem Work
My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don’t fight about it.
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Books Fight Myself People Problem Writing
If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
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Behavior Man Myself
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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Color Discrimination Judge Myself People Person Skin
I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.
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Future Music Myself Studio
If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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Believe Friendship Inspirational Mountain Move Myself
I listen to most everything that’s out there because I need to stay aware of what’s happening in the industry.
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Industry Listening Myself Need Stay
I can be a better me than anyone can.
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Be Yourself Better Myself Self Love
Hair has always been important.
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Appearance Hairs Important
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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Feeling Myself Production Thinking Writing
So 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.
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Change Music Myself Old People 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.
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Business Daughter Education Important Live Myself
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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Book Name People Sales Writing Yourself
I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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Children Family Myself Prayer

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