Diana Ross Quotes
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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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.
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It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
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Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.
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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.
