Good Ideas Quotes - Page 14

• Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Games, Ideas

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• If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice.

  Dana Gould

  Ideas, Lice, May

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• Same reason why young women on juries are not a good idea, they don't get it. They're not in that same life experience of paying the bills, doing the mortgage, kids, community, crime, education and health care. They're like healthy and hot and running around without a care in the world... I just think, excuse them, so they can go back on Tinder and Match.com.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  "Fox News' Kimberly Guilfoyle Caught in Controversy After Comments About Tinder, Young Women Voters" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 23, 2014.

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• Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.

  Dan Heath

  Tattoo, Mother, Father

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• The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Ideas, Next, Sometimes

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.40, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

  Deborah Bull

  Ideas, Form

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• Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Communication, Talking, Ideas

  "North Korea’s Latest Alarming Nuclear Test Is Part of Its Apocalyptic “Final Victory” Strategy" by Isaac Chotiner, www.slate.com. January 6, 2016.

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• Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.

  Moby

  Morning, Drinking, Taken

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. It's what the neoconservatives have wanted. It's what the vast majority of those on the stage want.

  Rand Paul

  War, Ideas, Evil

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

  Earl Nightingale

  Ideas, Thousand, Persons

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• I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good... They've midwived a lot of good ideas... lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids... I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.

  Bill Maher

  Song, Children, Mean

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

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• The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point.

  Josh Charles

  Fighting, Law, Ideas

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• When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.

  JJ Ramberg

  Ideas, People, Tests

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• Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Engineering, Hands

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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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• Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.

  Peter Menzel

  Sleep, Night, Ninety Nine

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• Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Ideas, Feminist

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• Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Mother, Maturity, Thinking

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• Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

  Jack McDevitt

  Ideas, People, Solitude

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• If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

  Linus Pauling

  Ideas, Want, Ifs

  "The Impact Of Linus Pauling On Molecular Biology" by Francis Crick, oregonstate.edu. 1995.

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• Reciprocating oral sex is, in general, a very good idea!

  Mallory Ortberg

  Sex, Ideas, Very Good

  "Open Shut Case". Live Chat, www.slate.com. December 22, 2015.

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• 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

  Dave Grohl

  Men, Ideas, Monsters

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• You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

  Steve Martin

  Ideas, Interesting, Stories

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• I think people have good ideas on this. Clearly, we need to secure the border. Coming here legally needs to be a lot easier than coming here illegally.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which makes me lose respect for certain photographers. Sometimes it's worth it to spend money on a good idea, but wasting money makes me ill.

  Peter Menzel

  Ideas, Excess Baggage, Long

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