Bad Ideas Quotes - Page 7

• It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

  David Lloyd

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

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• It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, Sometimes, Shows

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who wasn't half-stoned on pain meds would have instantly realized what a really bad idea this plan was, but since that didn't include me, I didn't worry about it.

  Josh Lanyon

  Pain, Ideas, Worry

  Josh Lanyon (2010). “All She Wrote”, p.64, Samhain Publishing

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• I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

  Aaron Allston

  Ideas, Sound, Generations

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• It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

  Isabel Colegate

  Women, Writing, Ideas

  Isabel Colegate (2009). “The Shooting Party”, p.2, Counterpoint

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• Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it's bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date - or for the first few dates. I'm always too nervous he'll kiss it off - if I'm lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important.

  Emmy Rossum

  Sexy, Strong, Kissing

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• When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Nice, Hair, Ideas

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• What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.

  Paul Di Filippo

  Encouragement, Writing, Ideas

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• It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ideas, Terrible, Worst

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store.

  David Gelernter

  Media, Ideas, Office

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• You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.

  Sam Altman

  Crazy, Ideas, Want

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• Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Revenge, Squares

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• I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

  Nigel Farage

  Ideas, Alcohol, Duty

  "Europe sets the rules on booze" by Nigel Farage, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2009.

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• When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

  Martin Amis

  Determination, Russia, Ideas

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Airports, Shoes, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

  Dick Armey

  Reality, Ideas, University

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• I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

  Rita Moreno

  Lying, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.

  Angela Lansbury

  Ideas, Trying, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

  Lewis Black

  Party, Ideas, Two

  "Black on Broadway". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. May 15, 2004.

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• The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Answers, Come Up

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• It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.

  Paul Singer

  Passion, Government, Law

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• I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

  Michael Moorcock

  Thinking, Ideas, Bigs

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.439, Del Rey

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• A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

  Stephen King

  Notebook, Ideas, World

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• If we were to tell you to deliberately spend ten minutes every day envisaging yourself being very ill, you'd quite rightly refuse to do it. Most people know that's a bad idea - yet those same people may spend time every day worrying about their health.

  Peter A. Cohen

  Health, Ideas, Worry

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