Dumbed Down Quotes

#1. The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that they can ask you one hundred multiple-choice questions to get it all back out of you again.

Charles Benoit

#2. I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars

Jay-Z

#3. The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

Fredric Jameson

#4. We don't share our thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them, Hollywood adaptations of those thoughts dumbed down for the PG-13 crowd.

Jonathan Tropper

#5. 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

#6. Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent.

Walter E. Williams

#7. One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans
anything except reason.

Thomas Sowell

#8. We have dumbed down what it means to be part of the church so much that it means almost nothing, even to people who already say they are part of the church.

Stephen W. Smith

#9. Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.

Nick Park

#10. We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise.

Alton Brown

#11. When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

Tom Robbins

#12. You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked.

Nick Denton

#13. Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Nate Ruess

#14. When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.

Indra Nooyi

#15. Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

Dan Simmons

#16. There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

Alan Kay

#17. Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting ... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

Adam Driver

#18. The memoir-novel dumbed down fiction and traduced

John Irving

#19. It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.

Saul Williams

#20. What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

Dan Deacon

#21. A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as 'give up meat to save the planet.'

Nicholas Stern

#22. Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.

Charles McGrath

#23. Life has its insidious way of crawling its way back into your sphere and you're dumbed down again by so many distractions including work obligations, social niceties and mountains of clothes washing.

Josh Langley

#24. Storytelling is a gift, but writing is a learned art.

Beem Weeks

#25. To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Oscar Wilde

#26. Science arose from poetry ... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#27. You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks ... We've dumbed it down.

Johnny Hunt

#28. When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

Alan King

#29. Tin-Tin in your rattle skin
Dumbed and worn down -
Flushed pink-salmon suffering.

Abigail George

#30. Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#31. I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

Eli Broad