Good Ideas Quotes - Page 18

• There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected and that that may not be such a good idea to have people with enormous wealth to have so much influence.

  Charlie Rose

  Ideas, People, May

  "The Giving Pledge: A new club for billionaires". www.cbsnews.com. November 17, 2013.

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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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• Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a cell phone, swipe a card somewhere, you leave a trace, and the Government has decided that it's good idea to collect it all, everything, even if you've never been suspected of doing a crime.

  Edward Snowden

  Writing, Government, Cells

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

  Edwin Catmull

  Ideas, Giving, Groups

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• Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.

  Will Cuppy

  Mistake, Ideas, Honor

  Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”

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• Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Writing, Ideas

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• Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Ideas, Car

  Vice presidential debate questions, www.politico.com. October 11, 2012.

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• On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not, when he was supposedly asked what he thought about western civilization. He is supposed to have said that he thought it would be a good idea. Similarly, humanitarian intervention would be a good idea, in principle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Civilization, Ideas

  Seminar at Bard College, New York, February 2, 2000.

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• Nobody seems to think it's a good idea to mention mistakes, but I think it's important to acknowledge the mistakes you've made in life, because it's really through those that you learn things. I've made hundreds.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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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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• Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

  Louis C. K.

  Ideas, People, Fringe

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• Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Ideas, India, Revolution

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember being young and people passing me things under the bathroom to sign, like under the stall. Like adults. We were shooting at Disney World, and my mom went with me to the bathroom, and an adult woman came in and under the stall was like, "Can you sign this?" And I remember my mom being like, "Have you lost your mind? What is wrong with you? You don't do that! She is a child and you don't do that to anyone!" Who thinks that is a good idea? Someone.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Mom, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

  Leonard Cohen

  Ideas, Recognition, Distraction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Past, Thinking

  Source: highlightsalongtheway.com

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• I don't think abortion is a good idea. I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

  Martin Sheen

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: progressive.org

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• Ordinary people like you and me can achieve very little on their own. We need to build support. Even if you are a thought leader and have some good ideas on how to make the world better, and even if you write five or ten books - that won't have much effect unless you have people who are willing to support your ideas.

  Thomas Pogge

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• After [Dan Fried] was initially hired into the Foreign Service in 1977, five subsequent presidents of both parties thought it would be a good idea to keep him on. That his deep understanding, his knowledge of all the players and so many of the secrets it would make him an indispensable asset, particularly when it comes to dealing with Russia.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Player, Deep Understanding

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war. It doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone should do something. I'm looking around and, like, I am someone, and I might not be able to do everything, but I can do something.

  Eugene Puryear

  War, School, Ideas

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The classic example I've used - I'm sure you've heard me say it before - was Mark Begich in Alaska who was here for a full six years and never had a roll call vote on an amendment on the floor of the Senate, which Dan Sullivan tells me he used on virtually a daily basis. So the notion that protecting all of your members from votes is a good idea politically, I think, has been pretty much disproved by the recent [Barack Obama] election.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Alaska, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• I think around that time I met David [Gordon Green] or, well, we all met at Superbad and Judd [Apatow] said, 'I'm thinking about having him direct [ Knocked Up].' Sounded like a good idea.

  Seth Rogen

  Thinking, Ideas, Knocked Up

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• We originally actually wrote Franco's part [in the Pineapple Express] for me and the part I ultimately played just for someone else in general. Then when we got Franco involved we thought it was a good idea to switch the roles. I think it worked really well.

  Seth Rogen

  Thinking, Ideas, Pineapples

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• The people who steal cars, there's somebody there who is the master, who orders the cars, or just takes a car when it is brought? I am saying the law enforcement authorities have a pretty good idea about a lot of these kind of persons. We want it to pool all that knowledge and all those resources, so that they focus on these people.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Order, Law, Ideas

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The law enforcement authorities have got a fairly good idea of who are these principal criminals. Who are the people, for instance, who receive the cell phones? When a young person goes and snatches a cell phone, there's someone who is sitting somewhere who receives this. Lots of this kind of crime.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Phones, Cells, Law

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the idea. And she said that she liked it very much, which embarrassed me because I thought it meant that she was a lightweight and that in the morning, as so many women say to so many men, what seems like a good idea, you know, turns out not to be.

  Daniel Handler

  Morning, Men, Editors

  Source: www.npr.org

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