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One thing you cannot control is nature.

Diana Ross

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 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.
DIANA ROSS

Education Explore Myself Place Travel
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.
DIANA ROSS

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.
DIANA ROSS

Myself Reason Sing Thinking Voice
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
I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
DIANA ROSS

Greatness Myself Place Priority Right
You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!
DIANA ROSS

Essence Hairs Yourself
I just appreciate still having the longevity that I’ve had in my career.
DIANA ROSS

Appreciation Career Gratitude Myself
My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.
DIANA ROSS

Fact Life Myself Tragedy
If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
DIANA ROSS

Behavior Man 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
It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
DIANA ROSS

Build Intention Myself Park
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
DIANA ROSS

Greatness Myself Record Time
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 don’t think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.
DIANA ROSS

Myself Role Model Thinking
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
You can have a lot of New York and still see what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think – like in China.
DIANA ROSS

Media Myself Possible Thinking World
I have a lust for life.
DIANA ROSS

Life Lust One Liner
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
DIANA ROSS

Autobiography Information Myself Personal Reveal
Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.
DIANA ROSS

Compassionate Day Encouragement Kindness Lost Time Way
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.
DIANA ROSS

Forget Myself Reality Secret Strong Work
One thing you cannot control is nature.
DIANA ROSS

Control Nature One Liner
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
If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
DIANA ROSS

Believe Friendship Inspirational Mountain Move 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
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.
DIANA ROSS

Book Name People Sales Writing Yourself
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
DIANA ROSS

Born Childhood Myself Place

One thing you cannot control is nature.

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