One thing you cannot control is nature.
DIANA ROSSThe first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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’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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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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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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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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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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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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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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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’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 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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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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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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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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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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Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.
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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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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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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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My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.
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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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You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!
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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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It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
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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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I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.
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