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• I remember stepping off and thinking that it might not be a good idea to let anyone know that I'm a homosexual, which is hilarious because I'm probably the gayest man I know. I had these huge dreams and they came to fruition so quickly.

  Leslie Jordan

  Dream, Thinking, Men

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

  Louis Menand

  Mean, Organization, Ideas

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.

  Geoffrey Hinton

  Past, Ideas, Looks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The reason I have managed to get so many shows on television is because I've tried to be authentic. When you're gonna spend millions of dollars to see that come to life, they better believe it's a good idea, A. B, they better believe that the person who's telling the idea is gonna put themselves into this.

  Scott Raab

  Believe, Ideas, Dollars

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Today, investing is no longer just a good idea for women. It is a must-have.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

  Cass Sunstein

  Ideas, Sound, Cost

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

  Meg Rosoff

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

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• Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

  Tove Jansson

  Grandmother, Ideas, Done

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• Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. “ When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, ‘I’m the most elite warrior!’ ‘ No, I’m the most elite warrior!’ And today you’re playing Halo and giving each other props for good ideas.

  Cassandra Clare

  Warrior, Night, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1532, Simon and Schuster

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• You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Asking Questions, Land, Ideas

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• If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Ideas, Use, Rooms

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• It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Ideas, Wonder, Made

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.58, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.

  Janet Evanovich

  Ideas, Giving, Bullets

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.675, Macmillan

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• There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ideas, Physics, Authority

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• ... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

  Patrick Ness

  Ideas

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• Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has changed their lives. Most people today will grant that fire and the wheel are the big two. After that, any attempts to rank the greatest ideas of all time are going to draw lots of argument. You’ll have zealots pimping this god or that on the one hand, scientists pimping Darwin on the other, and then practical people pointing at written language and saying, look, fellas, the reason those ideas have gone viral is because someone figured out how to write them down.

  Kevin Hearne

  Writing, Fire, Hands

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.643, Del Rey

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• Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..." Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea.

  Rachel Vincent

  Ideas, Starting, Pale

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.138, Harlequin

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• I don't think abortion is a good idea. I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

  Martin Sheen

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: progressive.org

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• It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

  Dave Barry

  Doctors, Ideas, Cynical

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.9, Rodale

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• Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you'll have a good idea of where to draw the line.

  Jason Evert

  Daughter, Men, Ideas

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• I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.

  Chris Cosentino

  Ideas, Firsts, Realizing

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• The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

  Howard Fineman

  Ideas, Majority, Noble

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• I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who was it that decided it was a good idea to politicize love, sex and marriage? Who spent the past four decades proclaiming that "the personal is political," so that every office flirtation and every petty domestic quarrel is a federal civil rights violation? The damned feminists, that's who.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Sex, Past, Men

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• Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Smart, Long Ago

  Financial Review, 1985.

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• It seemed a good idea at the time.

  Rebecca West

  Ideas

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