Mark Burnett Quotes
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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I already am a product.
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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.
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I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through.
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I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.
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We celebrate the Bill Gateses of the world. We're not mad at Bill Gates.
