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.
DIANA ROSSWhat’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.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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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 have never gotten into the label thing.
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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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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 even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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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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One thing you cannot control is nature.
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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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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
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I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
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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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I don’t like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
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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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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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