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Dumbing Down Quotes

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
Stephen Sondheim quote: "The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway...."
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them. Stephen Sondheim
Mary Chapin Carpenter quote: "I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely..."
I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know? Mary Chapin Carpenter
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
Alia Shawkat quote: "We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up...."
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
Alton Brown quote: "We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise."
We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise. Alton Brown
Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words. William Safire
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
Elmer Bernstein quote: "I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America -..."
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. Elmer Bernstein
Sally Ride quote: "It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down..."
It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school. Sally Ride
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
Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not. Connie Nielsen
Elizabeth Taylor quote: "If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make..."
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
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. Or, you can f**king live. Gerard Way
Emma Watson quote: "The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for..."
The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy. Emma Watson

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