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• I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Dark, Boys, Men

  Source: www.gq.com

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• While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn't sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn't such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Moon, Night, Ideas

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• The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Ideas, Always Trying

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.241, Xist Publishing

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• You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Discovery, Ideas

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• I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

  John Lydon

  Government, Ideas, Liberty

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• I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the waste we already have and it seems like a bad idea to me to make more when we have so many cleaner options such as wind and solar.

  Sheryl Crow

  Mean, Wind, Ideas

  "Learning the Truth about Coal and Nuclear Energy" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.

  Vinod Khosla

  Ideas, Purpose, Biofuels

  "On The Record: Vinod Khosla". San Francisco Chronicle Interview,, www.sfgate.com. May 11, 2008.

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• The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Simple, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.32, Penguin

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• Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

  Christian Audigier

  Mean, Ideas, Worst

  Interview with Andrew Cliver, www.askmen.com.

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• When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.

  Christian D. Larson

  Adversity, Thinking, Ideas

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Ideas, Psychics

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• After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.

  Douglas Gwyn

  Ideas, Choices, Leader

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• It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.

  Claude Monet

  Ideas, Numbers, Groups

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Ideas, Mind, Use

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• Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Party, Intimate Relationships

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• No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

  H. L. Mencken

  Truth, Law, Ideas

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.382, Knopf

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• More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen & Dunsany & others, rather than through the Bierce-Chambers line, that I picked up my gradually developing hash of theogony - or daimonogony. Come to think of it, I guess I sling this stuff more as Chambers does than as Machen & Dunsany do - though I had written a good deal of it before I ever suspected that Chambers ever wrote a weird story!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Thinking, Ideas, Doe

  Letter to August Derleth (16 May 1931), in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 505), 1996.

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• We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Character, Ideas, People

  "Bible Answer Man" with Hank Hanegraaf, December 19, 2001.

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• As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.

  John C. Dvorak

  Iphone, Ideas, Apples

  "Wrong? Dvorak blames his 'getting screwed over' by Apple" by Paul McNamara, www.networkworld.com. June 27, 2012.

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• How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

  Peter Gleick

  Airplane, Ideas, Want

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• I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious postcards and then I asked for a receipt, and the nun said, "We don't give receipts at the Vatican." Which threw me into a rage of like, "I guess not, so you can take this money and funnel it into anti-homosexual groups!" People had to drag me out of there. It's not good for me to go into the Vatican.

  John Waters

  Ideas, People, Giving

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Ideas, Trying, Pennies

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• It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Everyday Things, Ideas

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• The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others if you need their support to write the script. You can't wait to get started, and then you try to start, and you struggle with the blank page, and you get some ideas, and they're bad ideas, and you write bad stuff. It's really bad.

  Whit Stillman

  Struggle, Writing, Character

  Source: www.openlettersmonthly.com

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