"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."
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"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."
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"I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time."
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"Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way."
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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."
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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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"It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it."
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"My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities."
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"If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains."
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"I can be a better me than anyone can."
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"You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that's left behind!"
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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 was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto."
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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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"One thing you cannot control is nature."
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"Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon."
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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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"It's easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it."
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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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"Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?"
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