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• I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

  Bruce Beresford

  Ideas, Long, Theatre

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• There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

  Scott Adams

  Ideas, People, Want

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.447, Penguin

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• Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.

  David Zucker

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.

  Scott Walker

  Believe, Party, Thinking

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• It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

  Jon Ronson

  Ideas, People, Boundaries

  "Jon Ronson gets serious about Ashley Madison and Twitter-shaming". Interview with Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2015.

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• It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.

  Josh Smith

  Artist, Ideas, Skeletons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.

  David Mamet

  Country, Sleep, Rainy Day

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.

  Paula Deen

  Eye, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.

  Dale Ahlquist

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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• The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

  Jack Kemp

  Ideas, Way, Bad Ideas

  "The Talk Show Party" by Pierre Atlas, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 2, 2009.

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• It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

  Matthew Crawford

  Ideas, Trying, Attention

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• The value of a good idea is in using it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Values

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• It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Stupid, Ideas, People

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• Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

  George Carlin

  Running, Ideas, Two

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

  Gary Larson

  Ideas, Cartoon, Vices

  Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

  Sam Ewing

  Ideas, Brain, Sound

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• If you don’t have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don’t use it in the first place.

  Ted Lieu

  Military, Ideas, Next

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Believe

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• There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.

  Otto E. Neugebauer

  Writing, Should Have, Class

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• Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Ideas, India, Revolution

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

  Louis C. K.

  Ideas, People, Fringe

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• The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Answers, Come Up

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• Nobody seems to think it's a good idea to mention mistakes, but I think it's important to acknowledge the mistakes you've made in life, because it's really through those that you learn things. I've made hundreds.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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• On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not, when he was supposedly asked what he thought about western civilization. He is supposed to have said that he thought it would be a good idea. Similarly, humanitarian intervention would be a good idea, in principle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Civilization, Ideas

  Seminar at Bard College, New York, February 2, 2000.

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• Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Ideas, Car

  Vice presidential debate questions, www.politico.com. October 11, 2012.

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