Bad Ideas Quotes - Page 2

• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Book, Ideas, Jail

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.

  Paul Arden

  Ideas, Undone, Good Ideas

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• The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.

  Michael Buckley

  Ideas

  Michael Buckley (2017). “The Problem Child (The Sisters Grimm #3): 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.9, Abrams

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• No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it’s a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Ideas, Trying

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “This Is Emo: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle-it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?

  Ally Condie

  Break Up, Breakup, Memories

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• All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Honesty, Self

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• The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Sticks, Kind

  "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

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• Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

  Anthony Daniels

  Ideas, Triumph, Fantasy

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• It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas

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• If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

  Trey Parker

  Stupid, Ideas, Cool Movie

  Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them.

  John Daly

  Couple, Skills, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Ideas, Body, Bus

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• Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

  William Weld

  Ideas, People, Flow

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• It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

  Dave Foley

  Ideas, Long, Giving

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• Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

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• I've seen people that are extremely brilliant and they don't have the staying power. They don’t have that never give up quality. I've always said that other than bad ideas, which is a reason for failure, the ability to never ever quit or give up is something that is very, very important for success as an entrepreneur.

  Donald Trump

  Giving Up, Ideas, People

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• The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and she said, 'How am I supposed to fit all this crap on my hand?

  Bill Maher

  Hands, Ideas, America

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• Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, Ideas, Enterprise

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• Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Dark, Thinking

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• My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either.

  Kevin Henkes

  Writing, Ideas, Creating

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• I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.

  Luke Johnson

  Mistake, Failure, Learning

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• I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Thinking, Ideas, Sound

  "How to Call Carly Rae Jepsen - Maybe". Interview with Andrew Daniels, www.menshealth.com. June 24, 2012.

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• The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.

  Bobby Flay

  Thinking, Flames, Ideas

  "Homework: Memorial Day Grilling Dreams". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 25, 2008.

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• It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

  Prince Andrew

  Ideas, Community, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, People, Perspective

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