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“People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.”

People Next Black Imagine Glasses Diamond Pearls Bentley

“The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies that were never started, masterpieces that were never painted… In the cemetery there is buried the greatest treasure of untapped potential. There is a treasure within you that must come out. Don’t go to the grave with your treasure still within YOU.”

World Stills Lying Company Fields Mines Gold Oil Graves Treasure Buried Diamond Within You Masterpiece Places In The World Cemetery Untapped Potential Greatest Treasure Oil Field

Author:Myles Munroe

“You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.”

Rough Diamond Diamond In The Rough

Author:Babyface

“Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.”

Producers Executives Rough Diamond Diamond In The Rough

Author:Babyface

“Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe. It is the dialogue that matters most, not its imagined end. It is the sacred act of inquiry wherein we gently trace the experienced outlines of an ever-greater whole. It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamond’s infinite facets shine clearly. It is the dialogue that instills within us a power and capacity that is, and always has been, saturated with meaning.”

Source: About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang

“A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.”

People Heart Able Suffering Compassion Mankind Forgiving Diamond True Friend Filth Submerged

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Men are my life, diamonds are my career.”

Men Careers Diamond

Author:Mae West

“Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.”

Glasses Sincerity Diamond Prudence Discretion

Author:Andre Maurois

“I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.”

Diamond Leaving Me Glowing

Author:Fergie

“We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons.”

Thinking Important Earth Form Gold Skins Soil Diamond Minerals

Author:Wangari Maathai

“The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.”

Body Light Pleasure Perception Highest Observation Sensitive Shade Contrast Diamond Fatigue Luster

Book:Life and Writings

Source: Life and Writings

“Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.”

Saws Comedy Promise Mets Husband Smart Tough Yeah Sexy Attractive Rough My Husband Diamond I Promise Being Smart Richmond Diamond In The Rough

Author:Tina Fey

“Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.”

Ifs Inspirational Next Pay Attention Offers Seasons Pressure Train Instinct Pay Attention Crush Conformity Diamond Carbon Under Pressure Seasons Of Life

Author:T. D. Jakes

“‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.”

Thinking Should Film Unique Diamond Runners Blades Blade Runner

Author:Rutger Hauer

“It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.”

Trying Action Stealing Diamond

Author:Anthony Anderson

“The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.”

Effort Research Yield Diamond Coal

Author:Paul D. Boyer

“Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.”

Way Years Choices Born Company Cutting Tvs Findings Edges Albums Entertainment Burden Who We Are Rough Diamond Innovative Cutting Edge Tailors Diamond In The Rough Movies And Music

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.”

Mean Bits Black Fit Shoes Clouds Diamond Shut Up Embarrassed Clip Black Clouds

Author:Olivia Colman

“I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.”

Thinking Knows Looks Littles Differences Special Making A Difference Reports Diamond Flutes

Author:James Galway

“My hatred is diamond-hard.”

Hard Hatred Diamond

Author:Jim Goad

“In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.”

Reality Dark Letting Go Gold Holes Diamond Shovels Too Deep

Author:Randy Travis

“If you give that gal a diamond ring, you'll get a diamond back. She's just a venom wearing denim, boy, she's always making tracks.”

Ifs Giving Boys Track Rings Diamond Venom Gals Denim Diamond Rings

Author:Junior Brown

“I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.”

Found Kings Diamond Dirt Egotism

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”

Writing Jobs Perseverance Stuck Persistence Diamond Coal Jewels Gems Chunks Hard Work Pays Off

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace.”

Watches Shining Musical Diamond Watch Me

Author:Tupac Shakur

“Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.”

People Thinking Kind Made Poetry Drinking Rings All Kinds Lifts Princess Diamond Babe Pawns Precious Gifts Exchanging Steeples Diamond Rings Pretty People

Author:Bob Dylan

“Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.”

Heart I Can Sometimes Light Eye Water Saws Pure Opening Colour Diamond Crystals

Author:Glenda Millard

“Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.”

Ifs Doors Rocks Golden Someday Diamond Fades Adages Fade Away Blocked

Author:Tom Petty

“They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.”

Found Hero Gun Rings Rejection Diamond Gutters Diamond Rings

Author:Eric Clapton

“All I want is your loving, feel the earth move when we kiss. I don't need a big ol' diamond, but I'll take it baby if you insist.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Bigs Earth Moving Honesty Baby Kissing Diamond

Author:Mindy McCready

“Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.”

Sound Kings Gold Salvation Diamond Verses Rock And Roll Chorus

Author:Tom Petty

“If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.”

Ifs Night Stars Sweet Kissing Ocean Romantic Diamond Forsake Sweet Kisses

Author:Bob Dylan

“While the angels sing, I'd ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things.”

Ifs Giving Asks Sun Angel Romantic Rings If I Could Diamond Marry Me Diamond Rings

Author:R. Kelly

“If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.”

Ifs World Company Income Assets Diamond Collecting Metrics

Author:Vinod Khosla

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