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“Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."”

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Author:Tom Clancy

“In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.”

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Book:The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks

“This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.”

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Author:Hugh Downs

“The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.”

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Author:Michael Badnarik

“New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.”

“It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.”

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Author:T. Boone Pickens

“Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.”

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Book:All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts

Source: All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts

“The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.”

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Author:John Cleese

“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”

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Author:Alfred Nobel

“Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.”

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Author:Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

“I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at Caltech.]”

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Author:Fritz Zwicky

“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.”

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Author:Hyman Rickover

“Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.”

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Author:Rushworth Kidder

“It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.”

“Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.”

Source: Mystery Train

“If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm and many good ideas to share. Most importantly, however, it is young people who will be inheriting the problems which have been left to them by the generations past.”

“Before going mountain bike riding, it's a good idea to leave your valuables at home. Your testicles, for example.”

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Author:John Dockery

“Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.”

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Book:Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

“It certainly seems like a good idea to talk about Heaven, meditate about Heaven and read about Heaven, because, after all, that's where we're going to spend eternity.”

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Author:David Berg

“You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because, you know, it's very shy, too. But once you've got the essence of them, you can work songs and improve them. You see if there's a better word, or a better change.”

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Author:Tom Petty

“I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was...I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually-usually sometime around 3 in the morning-I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song.”

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Author:John Prine

“Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.”

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Author:Lyle Lovett

“They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.”

Source: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.”

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Author:Jeanne Gang

“If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. I also never forgot something Johnny Depp said to me, which Marlon Brando said to him, 'You only have so many faces in your pocket.' I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.”

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Author:Rupert Friend

“Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas”

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Author:Kevin O'Leary

“What I’ve learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you’ll find that you put the time in. You won’t just ask somebody if it’s a good idea, you’ll go figure out if it’s a good idea.”

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Author:Mark Cuban

“When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.”

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Book:sTORI Telling

Source: sTORI Telling

“I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.”

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Author:Jeremy Northam

“You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you want to make sure I give the right answer? Okay. Overpopulation is why I'm in favor of homosexuality and a celibate clergy. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”

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Book:Contact

Source: Contact

“Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.”

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Author:Bruce Coville

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.”

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Author:James S.A. Corey

“My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.”

“I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.”

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Author:Claire McCaskill

“Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.”

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Author:Roddy Doyle

“Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.”

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Book:The Boyfriend Quartet: 15 Boys, 43 Lists, 120 Footnotes, and Too Many Panic Attacks to Count, All in Four Novels about Ruby Oliver

Source: The Boyfriend Quartet: 15 Boys, 43 Lists, 120 Footnotes, and Too Many Panic Attacks to Count, All in Four Novels about Ruby Oliver

“Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too.”

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Author:George Burns

“You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.”

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Book:Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012

Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012

“Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.”

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Author:Yehuda Berg

“A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.”

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Author:Richard Kinder

“A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.”

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Author:Trevor Baylis

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