Jeremy Sisto Quotes

The diamond business has always been secretive.

Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

If diamonds are a girl's best friend, I wonder if blood diamonds are a girl's best friend 5 days out of the month?

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep "blood diamonds" out of international trade.

In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.

While I'm sure some millennials are concerned with the ethical issues involved in mining for diamonds, the main reason they steer clear of the gems is because, well, they're a dumb investment.

Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.

Everyone has a different perspective and they all want their perspective to be addressed within the limited resources you have.

The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers.

To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.

You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.

I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.

I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.

The reason why I wanted to be an actor was to understand different people and cultures.

In general, in my life, one of the coolest things that I've been able to do is to go to different places and meet different people and see how they view the world and to learn what their music is and what their language is, and the food they eat and everything. That idea of the beauty of the vastness of the world has just been my life.

I was raised fundamentalist Christian, and now I'm not that. It was not an act of rebellion or anything. For me, it was about being in a line of work where I was meeting so many different people and feeling like they all had legitimate points of view that I needed to consider and occasionally these were at odds with ideas that I was raised with.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

I think as you have a more diverse group of people working in the industry, you automatically have more diverse storytelling. That's definitely to be celebrated for sure.

I keep saying that I am made of two cities and all my friends. You learn different things from different people.

To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.