I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world – but these companies don’t share, really, their profits – this is called post-post-colonial.
I’ve never had big diamonds; I never had big cars.
It’s not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have – that’s the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It’s about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.
The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth – whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite – often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.
Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses.
Don’t use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson’s cellar instead of investing in your book.
We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds.
I think Bill Finn’s one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine’s one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
I don’t wear jewelry, so I wear furs. I don’t have diamonds.
I think diamonds represent luxury, indulgence, and class. So any time you can incorporate a gift that is synonymous with all those attributes, you know the other person will love it. I would challenge someone to find something that better represents Valentine’s Day more than diamonds!
Some days are diamonds. Some days are stones. Sometimes you have a couple of stones in a row.
Growing up, I was a bit of a tomboy; feminine things took a while to find their place in my world. But diamonds made me understand the magic and beauty of jewelry.
My brother, he love the diamonds, and he really got me into diamonds.
Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting – a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That’s the exception to the rule.
White diamonds can get boring, so I love a colored stone.
My father use to say if coal died, the country died. He was right. Our economy rests on the back of the coal miner. If we did not have the black diamonds of the mountains to burn, we would lose more than half of the nation’s energy reserves.
If you want a watch with diamonds on the bezel, you don’t need me.
I don’t want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds – having never helped anyone. That’s not my path. That’s not what I care about. That’s not what excites me.
I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.
Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.
A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Daytona showed I had style and I didn’t need to be flashy.
I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was ‘Diamonds Are Forever,’ when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces.
Big girls need big diamonds.
Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods.
As human beings, we’re very materialistic and have all this stuff – furs and cars and diamonds and money.
I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don’t even have pierced ears – I’m not into that; it’s too much.
My wife was a Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever, so I play James Bond in real life every day.
Oh, I love my Calcutta clients! They understand good-quality stones and they want good-quality jewelry, be it colored stones or diamonds or good workmanship.
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
But this is Miami, you can’t come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you’re all covered up in this heat, you’re gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It’s sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.
The reaction that I got from ‘Diamonds’ I would have expected to get from ‘House of the Rising Sun’ or one of the other songs.
We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.
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