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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More Diana Ross Quotes
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I have a lust for life.
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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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It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
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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 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 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 have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I’m not involved in their careers because I’ve learned that it’s important for them to stand on their own two feet. They’ll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.
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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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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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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?
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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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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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I know that my fans want to know who I’m sleeping with, but it’s really none of their business.
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I don’t care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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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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I don’t know what my life would have been like if I’d never gotten into show business.
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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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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 life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.
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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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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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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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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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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
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