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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.”

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Author:Josh Charles

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

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Author:Earl Nightingale

“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.”

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Author:Linus Pauling

“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.”

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Author:JJ Ramberg

“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.”

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Author:Moby

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

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Author:Brian Reynolds Myers

“I think it's a really good idea to be bumping into all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. So you make art with strangers. You give a reading. You move somewhere new and try to build a life. You grapple with humanity.”

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Author:Laurel Nakadate

“Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.”

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Author:Grace Gealey

“Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.”

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Author:Debra Dean

“My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.”

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Author:Leigh Newman

“I actually think the debate is a good idea because if internationally somehow we can bring home to Americans that their decision about who they select as their candidate has international implications then by all means we should.”

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Author:Kit Malthouse

“I don't have a lot of experiences like this where every time I thought I had a good idea it was totally wrong. I had to give in completely and just try to make the movie Alejandro Amenábar was trying to make.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“I think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in Burma. I do not think it is a good idea to separate economics from politics; in fact, I do not think economics can be separated from politics It's quite understandable that many business concerns think only about their own profits It's up to the public to put as much pressure as it can on these companies, through shareholder resolutions and public actions.”

“I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I listen to some of my old stuff, I can tell when I had a good idea, but I forced it through, and I can hear myself - the bit that I've written, which sounds clunkier than the stuff that just sort of comes.”

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Author:Nick Lowe

“Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.”

“The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as models for the essay. And in some ways that's a good idea, because we can all learn from other genres. But I think it also made me realize that I literally didn't have an essay model, and that if I wanted one I would have to find it.”

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Author:John D'Agata

“Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that is and make sure that everyone sticks to it when it comes down to actually executing it.”

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Author:Thomas Jane

“When Hillary Clinton ran against Senator [Barack] Obama she thought him naive because he thought it was a good idea to talk to our enemies. I think those are exactly the people you have to talk to and you have to negotiate with.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I know it is never a good idea to not be comfortable.”

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Author:Garance Dore

“Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.”

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Author:Adam Rapp

“And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.”

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Author:Michael Scheuer

“I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.”

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Author:Bethany Cosentino

“I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.”

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Author:Oliver Sim

“If somebody told me, "Not a good idea," I would've said, "No, it's probably a good idea if you get drunk with me." I would've flipped it around on them. There was no way you could tell me anything. I wasn't listening to any type of reason.”

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Author:Reginald Arvizu

“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.”

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Author:Leslie Jordan

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

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Author:Louis Menand

“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.”

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Author:Geoffrey Hinton

“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.”

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Author:Scott Raab

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

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“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.”

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Author:Cass Sunstein

“I went through a period when I was about 19 where I'd go tanning with my boyfriend in tanning beds. Yes, this was actually a thing we used to do together. They were not my friend. I had no idea what I was doing. We all went in the early 2000s. Needless to say, I don't go anymore. If I need a quick fix, I get a spray tan - though it's never a good idea for me with my fair skin.”

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Author:Brittany Snow

“People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It's not a good idea to do that.”

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Author:CM Punk

“I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.”

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Author:Judy Blume

“Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.”

“I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.”

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Author:David Toop

“No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.”

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Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!”

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Author:Shane Claiborne

“I would acknowledge that [Paul] Ryan has some really good ideas about things, and I think they'll get together, like taxes. Larry Kudlow, Stephen Moore, they've been supportive of Ryan's tax view and now they're very supportive of [Donald] Trump's. So I think that's got potential.”

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Author:Jeff Sessions

“If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It's also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people.”

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Author:Seth Rogen

“We're doing a horrible job, and by "we" I mean conservatives, Republicans, free marketers, anyone who believes in liberty is doing a horrible job if half of young people think socialism is a good idea.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.”

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Author:Vijay Prashad

“I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.”

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Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Truthfully, in the beginning [of MacGyver] this could have gone either way, and as it turned out there was a version that was done wrong, which I'm not even going to get into. It was a pretty good idea and I liked where it was going, but then we got a chance to restart with Peter Lenkov [as executive producer/showrunner], who brought his vision to it. I remember reading his pilot script and it was just so exciting that I started hopping around my room.”

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Author:Lucas Till

“I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities, puzzle pieces fitting together. I was doing an event that they were sponsoring, and after a group of us went to dinner and we started talking a little bit more and one thing led to another.We all thought it might be a good idea to try to develop a show and as we started talking about the show that we might bring to air, it turned into doing a newsmagazine.”

“This is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids, what we are doing to Russia right now, and I don't think this is a good idea.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.”

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Author:Edward Boyden

“I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.”

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Author:Edward Boyden

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