Diana Ross Quotes
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
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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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I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.
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I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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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'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
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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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I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey Robinson. I was very proud to live down the street from him because he was our only celebrity in town. He was singing with the Miracles.
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It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.
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I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.
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Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that.
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I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
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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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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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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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I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.
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Hair has always been important.
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If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.
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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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I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.
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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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I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
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Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.