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?
DIANA ROSSI 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.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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’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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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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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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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 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 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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You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!
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I have a lust for life.
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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.
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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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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’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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You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
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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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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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You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
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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.
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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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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 children come first and the career comes in around that.
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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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So I’m not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I’m happy that I have them; I think it’s good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
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I’m not really a songwriter – I’m an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
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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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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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