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  • Good Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Easter. Bad Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Xmas. -- Jack Handey
  • I know, he said. We are into the Bad Idea neighborhood and heading down I Have a Bad Feeling Street. (Shane) -- Rachel Caine
  • When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone. -- Mariska Hargitay
  • Sanctions are a bad idea. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. -- Julia Cameron
  • Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. -- Craig Bruce
  • Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. -- Edsger Dijkstra
  • I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. -- Larry Wall
  • Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. -- Nigel Farage
  • It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things. -- Evan Davis
  • I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea. -- Paul Conrad
  • Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart. -- Blake Shelton
  • I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit. -- Carly Rae Jepsen
  • From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea. -- Justin Sane
  • My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change. -- Avi Rubin
  • If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.' -- Trey Parker
  • When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone! -- Mariska Hargitay
  • The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea. -- Rose George
  • Back in '93 and '94, when 'Dookie' was being made, my dad built this tour bus for us, out of a bookmobile. We toured in it for the first year. It was a really bad idea, by the way. -- Tre Cool
  • It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks. -- Prince Andrew
  • It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so. -- Paul Singer
  • My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves. -- James McNerney
  • Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it's bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date - or for the first few dates. I'm always too nervous he'll kiss it off - if I'm lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important. -- Emmy Rossum
  • The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames. -- Bobby Flay
  • Cash from a reverse mortgage can be paid out in several ways, including a lump sum, a monthly payment, a line of credit, or a combination of those. If you do not need money right away, it is usually a bad idea to take all the money upfront, since it starts accumulating interest charges immediately. -- Charles Duhigg
  • It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished. -- David Lloyd
  • The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea. -- David Lynch
  • I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot. -- James Fenton
  • Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were to write a cookery book, for instance, I would be compelled to say that, to make an omelette, you have to break at least one egg. Actually, that's not a bad idea. Or maybe I should write a sequel and call it 'Bottoms Up?' -- Pippa Middleton
  • Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea. -- Leigh Bardugo
  • Never underestimate the staying power of a bad idea. -- RC Longworth
  • A good metaphor can make any bad idea sound good -- Scott Adams
  • Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea. -- Craig Bruce
  • Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art. -- Ishmael Reed
  • Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone. -- Paul Arden
  • Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea. -- William Weld
  • You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke. -- Benjamin Walker
  • Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea! -- Nikki Sixx
  • The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea. -- John M. McHugh
  • Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas. -- Joshua Schachter
  • It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it. -- Stephen King
  • Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them. -- Jeffery Taylor
  • Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice. -- Diane Ravitch
  • It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well. -- Charles Frazier
  • I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea. -- Philip Sington
  • Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work. -- George Carlin
  • I'm gonna see how this works out, but I think it's a bad idea. -- Joe Teti
  • The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons. -- Meryl Streep
  • It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job. -- Emily Procter
  • I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership. -- Joshua Ferris
  • The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind. -- Win Butler
  • The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea. -- Jack Kemp
  • It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other. -- Ann Wilson
  • Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea. -- Charlie Day
  • Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. -- Ad Reinhardt
  • I don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good. -- Karl Lagerfeld
  • When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea. -- Walter Darby Bannard
  • Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party. -- Amy Dickinson
  • As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us. -- Timothy Keller
  • My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside... -- Kellyanne Conway
  • It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more. -- J. J. Abrams
  • The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift. -- Chris Martin
  • I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket. -- Michael Demon Calce
  • Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap. -- Andy Borowitz
  • Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. -- Julia Cameron
  • The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good. -- Charles Kettering
  • There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea. -- Moby
  • The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us. -- Karl Popper
  • I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad. -- Gene Weingarten
  • No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya -- Cate Tiernan
  • The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early. -- Marc Andreessen
  • I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea. -- Charlie Kaufman
  • Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry. -- Eddie Izzard
  • When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
  • The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him. -- Vince Gilligan
  • When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. -- Stephan Pastis
  • I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. -- John Lydon
  • I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea. -- George Carlin
  • You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that. -- Shuji Nakamura
  • It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me. -- Holly Black
  • I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference. -- Sara Ryan
  • My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that. -- Shaun Cassidy
  • I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad. -- Susan Orlean
  • There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color. -- Scott Adams
  • It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible. -- Cassandra Clare
  • Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd. -- Christopher McQuarrie
  • Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea. -- Jonathan Morris
  • I thought you said scrying was a bad idea." "It's like vodka," Calla said. "It really depends on who's doing it. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea. -- Willie Nelson
  • The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea. -- Neil Postman
  • You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels. -- Billy Sherwood
  • It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers. -- Philip Kitcher
  • It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion. -- Warren Rudman
  • Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones? -- Will Rogers
  • Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan. -- Arlo Guthrie
  • I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway. -- Kathleen Robertson
  • I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you. -- Rita Moreno
  • It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives. -- Philip Kitcher
  • A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Debbi Fields
  • Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves. -- Vinod Khosla
  • To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side! -- Jay Leno
  • Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person. -- John Cleese
  • China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love. -- D.R. Silva
  • One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
  • ... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal. -- Sam Altman
  • I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age. -- Paul Krugman
  • [A]s for my prediction that [the iPhone] would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress. -- John C. Dvorak
  • We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better. -- Simon Sinek
  • It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. -- Isabel Colegate
  • I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic. -- Luke Haines
  • I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson -- Aaron Allston
  • You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines. -- Neal Knox
  • There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it. -- Maisie Williams
  • Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men. -- Stephen King
  • He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed. -- Kristin Hannah
  • I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why. -- Andrew Luck
  • The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example -- Mark Twain
  • There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse. -- Laura Wasser
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