Diana Ross Quotes
My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it?
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How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
