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• I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life Changing, Ideas, Decision

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• It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ideas, People, Important

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Sourcery: (Discworld Novel 5)”, p.318, Random House

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• I had just gotten Heroes, and I had just found out that I was going to be doing [Star] Trek, and I thought it was probably a good idea for me to create an infrastructure that would allow me to do my own work and put my stuff into the world.

  Zachary Quinto

  Stars, Hero, Ideas

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

  James Joyce

  Latin, Ideas, Dying

  James Joyce (1946). “Ulysses”, Modern Library

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• Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone Halt had used. He had retrieved several of his arrows from the nearest target and now he had one of them ready, laid on the bowstring. Halt glanced around approvingly. "Good idea," he said. "Aim for the left calf. It's a very painful wound.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Voice, Arrows

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• It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Decision, Relaxation

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.

  Mike Myers

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

  Marc Maron

  Thinking, Ideas, Bullshit

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Book, Reading

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• I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.

  Ben Affleck

  Jobs, Crazy, Ideas

  "The Hollywood Education of Ben Affleck, from ‘Chasing Amy,’ ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Shakespeare’ to his Second Act and ‘Argo’". Interview with Leonard Maltin, www.indiewire.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I think if you're going to remake a film it should be something that was a good idea, but wasn't executed well. There isn't anything I would like to remake. I have too many of my own ideas I want to make.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking, Ideas, Want

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• Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

  Jeff Bezos

  Ideas, Problem, Harder

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• The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Ideas, People

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• I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Ideas, Done

  "Steve Ballmer: A Deal for Yahoo Would be Better If Done Soon" by Nick Wingfield, www.wsj.com. December 5, 2008.

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• All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Ideas, Acting, May

  "Farewell to Reason". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1987.

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• The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

  Roald Dahl

  Ideas, Plot, Reason

  Roald Dahl (2017). “The Roald Dahl Treasury”, p.560, Penguin UK

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• Oh look, an ATM! Ok, here we go! I lost all my money, now what do I do? Get a gun! Rob a casino! Good idea! Look at all the lights! This is beautiful.

  Bill Burr

  Beautiful, Gun, Light

  "Premium Blend", Season 2, episode 3, June 20, 1998.

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• I never felt like dying was a good idea.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Ideas, Dying, Felt

  "The Hot List". Q Magazine Interview with Paul Rees, September, 2011.

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• It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Smart, Ideas, People

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• Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Change, Reality, Ideas

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• I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

  Hans Zimmer

  Morning, Ideas, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

  Barry McCaffrey

  Ideas, Democracy, Left

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• I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.

  Richard Gere

  Stupid, Ideas, People

  "OSCARS Q&A: Richard Gere". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. November 20, 2012.

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• People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, Giving

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