Mark Burnett Quotes

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

Mark Burnett

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• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Help
  • Actors
  • Director

• The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Single
  • Moment

• In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• 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

• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • Writing
  • You

• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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

• Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Humanity
  • Here
  • Lesson

• The players who said I am the dirtiest player in the league, it's ultimately their opinion, but I would love to hear from many of them on their true opinion on that.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • True
  • Player
  • Opinion

• If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Kind
  • Water
  • Ocean

• I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Up
  • Chicago

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

  

  Mark Burnett