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• 8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fully trust him. Then you will become even more insecure and neurotic than you already are.

  E. Lockhart

  Insecure, Cheater, Ideas

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.149, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.

  Philip Sington

  Ideas, Age

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• I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.” “It's like vodka,” Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Ideas, Vodka, Said

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, Educational, Ideas

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• All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Creativity, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.111, Penguin

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• I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Ideas, Patents

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• I don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hair, Ideas, Fringe

  "Karl Lagerfeld: Michelle Obama’s Bangs Were A Bad Idea" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

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• From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

  Justin Sane

  Ideas, Age, Trying

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• You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

  John McTiernan

  Ideas, Scripts, Wells

  "The Stax Report: Script Review Of Rollerball". www.ign.com. July 14, 2000.

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• But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.

  Beth Henley

  Smart, Writing, Character

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• This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

  Tavis Smiley

  Ideas, America, Firsts

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• Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.

  Andy Borowitz

  Ideas, Looks, Soap

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Feb 11, 2012

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• My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

  Avi Rubin

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

  Steven Spielberg

  Ideas, Long, Good Ideas

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• Stick around. I’m full of bad ideas.

  Isaac

  Ideas, Sticks

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• A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

  Stephen King

  Notebook, Ideas, World

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• Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Motivational Business, Enough

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• If we were to tell you to deliberately spend ten minutes every day envisaging yourself being very ill, you'd quite rightly refuse to do it. Most people know that's a bad idea - yet those same people may spend time every day worrying about their health.

  Peter A. Cohen

  Health, Ideas, Worry

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• In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.

  Bill Maher

  Book, Ideas, America

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• If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Oil, Ideas

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

  Warren Rudman

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

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• I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

  Paul Conrad

  Hands, Ideas, Drawing

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• The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.

  Willie Robertson

  Ideas, Together, Jam

  Willie Robertson, Korie Robertson, Mark Schlabach (2014). “The Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family, and Ducks Built a Dynasty”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

  Nick Cave

  Powerful, Flames, Hands

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• All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

  Nick Cave

  Ideas, Idle

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