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

Diana Ross

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.
DIANA ROSS

Care Consume Myself Vacation Work
Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.
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Compassionate Day Encouragement Kindness Lost Time Way
I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
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Dance Exercise Myself
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.
DIANA ROSS

Carry Emotion Happiness Health Myself Worry
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 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
I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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Children Family Myself Prayer
One thing you cannot control is nature.
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Control Nature One Liner
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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Media Myself Possible Thinking World
I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what’s going on in my life.
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Heart Life Myself Selection Thinking Try
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.
DIANA ROSS

Article Criticism Hold Hurt Ignorance Move Myself
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.
DIANA ROSS

Future Myself Need Past Sight Work Yourself
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
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.
DIANA ROSS

Finding Hard Independence Love Man Myself Strong
My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
DIANA ROSS

Appearance Energy Family 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
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
Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they’d probably say yes, she’s great, but.
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God Greatness Herself People
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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Cry Emotion Myself People Wonder
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
I have never gotten into the label thing.
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Label Myself
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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Born Childhood Myself Place
I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.
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Enjoyment Fun Life Myself Work
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
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.
DIANA ROSS

Cloud Dreams Forever Hold On Known Myself Togetherness Yourself
I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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Adoption Children Mom Myself
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

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