Mark Burnett Quotes

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

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• Tech companies tend to do tech best.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Best
  • Tend
  • Tech

• Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Israel
  • Discrimination

• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Week

• Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Power
  • Path

• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Most
  • Disaster
  • Significant

• When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • You
  • Look
  • Dirty

• Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Kind
  • Eyes
  • Television

• I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Commitment
  • Test

• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Find
  • Trouble

• Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • School

• My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Father
  • Anxiety
  • Afraid

• Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Way
  • Problems
  • Environmental

• The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Political
  • Wise
  • Stupid

• What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• When a parent denies a child its 'parent time,' that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Support

• You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • World
  • Perfect

• There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Fool

• He who does not value life does not deserve it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Value

• There are too few people working in the area of viral pathogenesis and immunity, too little funding, too many problems, and too little time.

  

  Peter C. Doherty
  • People
  • Time

• I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Doing
  • Jump
  • Comfort

• I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Time

• People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.

  

  Bob Morley
  • People

• Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing.

  

  Meir Kahane
  • Today

• You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

  

  Mark Burnett