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I don’t think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

Diana Ross

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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Business Care Decision Health Life Myself Order Parents
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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Afraid Learning Money Myself Talk Trust
I don’t like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
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Artist Make Up Myself
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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Autobiography Information Myself Personal Reveal
I’ve never been damaged or hurt by press. It’s just that I think it’s unfair to use your name in media.
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Damage Hurt Media Myself Thinking Unfair
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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Home Insane Lonely Myself Success Travel
With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I’m comfortable with money and it’s comfortable with me.
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Comfortable Fast Money Myself
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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Children Friendship Music Myself Thinking
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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Business Daughter Education Important Live Myself
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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Business Fans Known Myself Privacy Sleep
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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Book Name People Sales Writing Yourself
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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Discipline Help Necessary Tools
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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Change Music Myself Old People Time
You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
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Believe End Need Yourself
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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Direction Life Path Shown Yourself
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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Carry Emotion Happiness Health Myself Worry
It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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Time Work Yourself
I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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Children Family Myself Prayer
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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Care Consume Myself Vacation Work
I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
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Greatness Myself Place Priority Right
Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don’t hold on to that.
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Article Criticism Hold Hurt Ignorance Move Myself
I have a lust for life.
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Life Lust One Liner
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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Feeling Myself Production Thinking Writing
I have never gotten into the label thing.
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Label Myself
One thing you cannot control is nature.
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Control Nature One Liner
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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Finding Hard Independence Love Man Myself Strong
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.
DIANA ROSS

Better Career Daughter Feeling Freedom Learning Myself Proud

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