Diana Ross Quotes
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My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
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I have never gotten into the label thing.
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I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.
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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 want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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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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If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.
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I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
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I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.
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I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.
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I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
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They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.
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All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.
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I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.
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I can be a better me than anyone can.
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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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Being a parent is very important to me.
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It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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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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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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I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
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I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time.
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One thing you cannot control is nature.
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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 don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.
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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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