Dumb Down Quotes

#1. We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show.

Alia Shawkat

#2. Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie..

Geoffrey Hill

#3. We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

Ashwin Sanghi

#4. I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#5. If we start to dumb down what has been made clear, where does that stop?

Andy Stanley

#6. I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.

John Kruk

#7. It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

Sally Ride

#8. So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

David Krumholtz

#9. Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.

Andy Stanley

#10. His lips rise. "I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don't come off like a complete prick." I think he just called me stupid.

Krista Ritchie

#11. Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

Saul Williams

#12. I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don't come off like a complete prick.

Krista Ritchie

#13. Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

Martin Amis

#14. You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#15. I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.

Gail Carriger

#16. I felt like my vote was the vote that put [Obama] into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote. And that may not be true, but that's how much power it felt like I had.

Puff Daddy

#17. I don't believe making a movie accessible means you have to dumb them down.

Charles Roven

#18. While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

Andrew Motion

#19. Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

Jacques Ranciere

#20. Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

Gerard Way

#21. Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.

Lenny Bruce

#22. The Executive has got to have a freer hand and be able to move quick in an emergency, and not be tied down by a lot of dumb shyster-lawyer congressmen taking months to shoot off their mouths in debates.

Sinclair Lewis

#23. I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

Kelli Jae Baeli

#24. I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.

Cher

#25. Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt.

Joshua Neik

#26. Ut it's one of the reflections of our times. Young minds today are dulled by television and other visual sensations. When reading was one of the few pleasures available, we could recite whole passages to eachother.

Gloria Naylor

#27. I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#28. Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.

Mario Batali

#29. The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.

Emma Watson

#30. The computer's password protected. I try the basics: 1,2,3,4. QWERTY. YTREWQ, which is qwerty backward. PASSWORD. A few others. Whoever uses this computer isn't quite that dumb. They are, however, dumb enough to write it down in the corner of the desk blotter.

Michael Grant

#31. Because the vast majority of the world is made up of half-wits, the President asked Mike to come onboard and dumb everything down for them.

Dan Brown

#32. Latinos are very passionate, and they perform a lot, and look at me, I'm talking with my hands, and this is just my normal self, so it kind of allows me to be who I am and not dumb it down.

Genesis Rodriguez

#33. 'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.

Matt Groening

#34. Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer

Seth Godin

#35. I was happy to know her in my small, formal, dependent way. And I felt a ravenous grief for nice boys who are too stupid to take care of themselves, and too dumb to remember to check the surrounding brush for snakes before settling down to sleep for the night.

John Darnielle

#36. It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.

Charlie Munger

#37. America eats its youth like reptiles ... Educat e yourself before they dumb you down.

Ice Cube

#38. Someone told me to dumb my poetry down, but I told them I can't because I don't have a smart phone.

Delano Johnson

#39. We do not need you. Do not come unless I call you." Ricard crawled out of bed and shut the door as the steam men moved down the hall. "Dumb things." Ricard - As Timeless As Stone

Maeve Alpin

#40. I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

Amy Bloom

#41. Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

Bruce Paltrow

#42. I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.

Mark Wahlberg

#43. He laughed again. "Not boring and not dumb. That's so much better than your boyfriend who both bored me and was dumb. To be honest I don't
know what you saw in him."
"Ex. Ex-boyfriend " she said. "I swear to God I'm never going to live that down.

Thea Harrison

#44. SOCIETY IS DOOMED for one very simple reason: it takes dozens of men working months with millions of dollars in materials to build a building, but only one dumb-ass with a bomb to bring it down.

David Wong

#45. We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she's young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb

John Lennon

#46. All New Years is to me is for taking down your dumb Christmas decorations. People who put up Christmas decorations, all they're saying is, 'Hey, we're not Jews.'

Rich Vos

#47. I had to get slow and dumb (not take anything for granted) and watch and see how everything connects, how you contact your thoughts and lay them down on paper.

Natalie Goldberg

#48. At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

Thomas Carlyle

#49. If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Elizabeth Taylor

#50. Thick pulse and dizziness make his head light and stomach turn. He really can't feel his fingers, or knees for that matter. But everything settles down again - almost as if it were always meant to - when his eyes graze a dumb grin and a pair of glittering eyes.

Changdictator

#51. What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett.
"My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.

Connie Willis

#52. The demons diverted its sights from me and swooped down on the yappy mutt.
Dogs aren't my thing.
I hate dogs. And if this one was dumb enough to sacrifice itself for me, hallelujah. I kept running.
After I reversed course.
Stupid dog.

A&E Kirk

#53. You don't have to dumb it down, but you do have to sum it up.

Charles M. Blow

#54. Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

Danica McKellar

#55. The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

Emma Watson

#56. There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Malcolm Turnbull

#57. When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Steve Jobs