Bad Ideas Quotes - Page 5

• Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, California, Ideas

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• That old Bobby Kennedy 1968 form of liberalism where you could be holding hands with the Appalachian family on one day and then be in Harlem the next day and nobody thinks it's weird, that is something that isn't as strong. It was strong in 2008. It hasn't been as strong since then. That's just a reality that we have to deal with that it's not just that the Republicans ran a terrible candidate who had bad ideas, it's also that the circle of love and affirmation that we have as progressives can sometimes just not be big enough.

  Van Jones

  Strong, Reality, Thinking

  Source: pen.org

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• Whether or not regime change is a good idea or a bad idea. I don't think because I think the regime change was a bad idea it means that Hussein was necessarily a good idea.

  Rand Paul

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I am a leader in the fight against the national energy tax proposal some Congressional leaders are advocating. I call this bad idea 'cap-and-tax' because of the damage it will do to jobs, manufacturing and our economy.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Jobs, Fighting, Ideas

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• Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

  Warren Buffett

  Ideas, People, Causes

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He`s been assuming a sort of progressive mantle, and he ticked off some large and systemic problems that this country faces.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Almost everything wrong with our health care system comes from government interference with the free market. If the health care system is broken, then fix it. Don't try to invent a new one premised on all the bad ideas that are causing problems in the first place.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Ideas, Broken

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• We do it all the time, we legislate taste. We do it with the tax code. Churches and children get a tax break, because it's assumed that we all agree that we want to encourage churches and children. I don't. I don't. That's my opinion. I don't want to encourage either churches or children, and it's a very bad idea to put them together.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Ideas, Together

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

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• I got some bad ideas in my head.

  Robert De Niro

  Ideas

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• It's the same as saying, you know, "I'll smoke, but that's up to me." Doctors don't recommend it. I don't recommend smoking. It's a bad idea. Smoking or spanking. Bad ideas.

  Sean Hannity

  Doctors, Ideas, Smoking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.

  Neal Knox

  Fighting, Winning, Thinking

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• Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry.

  Eddie Izzard

  Cousin, Queens, Ideas

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• There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, 'America Is Better Than Abortion.' I think she meant that America was too good a place for the horror of abortion. But instead, it sounded like she had weighed both - the American spirit and getting an abortion and decided that American spirit better. I think it is a bad idea to have grammatically ambiguous protest signs.

  Eugene Mirman

  Thinking, Ideas, America

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• When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

  Stephan Pastis

  Writing, Ideas, Blenders

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• I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.

  Barry Hannah

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Mom, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The 21st Century should be India's century but from 2004 to 2014 bad ideas and bad actions have affected the country adversely. Every day was a new bad day and there were new scandals. People were furious.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Bad Day, Ideas

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

  Lewis Black

  Party, Ideas, Republican

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• A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

  Edward Boyden

  Ideas, Sound, Good Ideas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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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• I also think regime change in Syria is a bad idea. And that's an ongoing question. It's one of the things I like about Donald Trump, one of the reasons I endorsed him is he thinks regime change is a mistake. But John Bolton thinks completely the opposite. They are diametric opposites.

  Rand Paul

  Mistake, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Should Have, Ideas, Rising

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• Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

  Sam Harris

  Ideas, Islam, Moments

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