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

  Paul Arden

  Ideas, Undone, Good Ideas

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or father, your marriage will pay for it in ways both obvious and subtle. When the chips are down, when someone is sick or loses their job or gets scared, the old patterns will kick in and he will treat you the way he treated his mother or the way she treated him.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Mother, Jobs, Father

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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've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Thinking, Ideas

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.

  Jasper Fforde

  Ideas, East, Matter

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.315, Hachette UK

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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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• I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

  Lois Lowry

  Years, Ideas, Looks

  Lois Lowry (2008). “The Willoughbys”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

  Charles Frazier

  Ideas, Long, Wells

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• As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

  Frederic Raphael

  Should Have, Ideas, America

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• A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

  Debbi Fields

  Ideas, America, Likes

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• Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

  Joshua Schachter

  Business, Writing, Ideas

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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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