You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
DIANA ROSSIt’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.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it’s show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
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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 am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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I just appreciate still having the longevity that I’ve had in my career.
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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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