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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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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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 have no way of knowing why my career has lasted so long other than the fact that people like the sound of my voice. Fortunately, I've been able to maintain it.
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The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.
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I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
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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.
