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 ROSSMy name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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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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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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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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I can be a better me than anyone can.
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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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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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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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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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All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.
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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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I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
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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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My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.
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