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You're dumber than you think I think you are.
Robert Towne / Screenwriter
Hiding Something
Stupidity
Thinking
Dumber
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Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.
Sam Richardson /
Vain
Me More Like
Dumber
Sam
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The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.
Jim Courier / Tennis Player
Court
Play
Tennis
Dumber
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As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
Peter Mcwilliams / Author
Home
Feels
World
Dumber
More And More
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Two weeks in Hawaii with four kids is one of the dumber ideas I've ever had.
Rachel Hollis /
Hawaii
Two Weeks
Dumber
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One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.
Shawn Colvin / Singer-Songwriter
Melody
Said
Sticks
Dumber
Manager
Stick
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I feel dumber every time I listen to Sean Hannity. I don't want to be that guy.
Charlie Sykes /
Sean
Dumber
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We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.
Clive Thompson / Blogger
Machines
Nimble
Dumber
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Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Superhero
Viewers
Invest
Dumber
Entertained
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
Zach Anner / Comedian
Version
Dumber
Sweeter
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The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.
Oneohtrix Point Never /
Excitement
Dumber
Imagining
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There is no evidence that Republican leaders have been demonstrably dumber than their Democratic counterparts.
Max Boot / Author
Counterparts
Evidence
Dumber
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The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
Stephen Sondheim / Composer
Broadway
Country
Used
Dumber
Reflects
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If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you're pretty much like a rock, only dumber.
John Kennedy /
Economy
Policy
Tax
Pretty
Dumber
Rock
Tax Policy
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I feel like the world is getting dumber. I don't necessarily think people are stupid, but I think we're getting dumber.
J.i.d /
Stupid
World People Feel
Stupid World People
Dumber
Necessarily
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Often, American audiences are underestimated by producers and movie studios. They often think we're dumber than we are.
Ben Feldman / Businessman
Studios
Underestimated
American Audiences
Dumber
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I'm not saying that photographers are dumber than other people, but they are the folks who walk around with brilliant white lights in nighttime riots.
John Sandford / Novelist
Brilliant
Folks
Nighttime
White
Dumber
Walk
Lights
Photographers
Riots
Saying
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I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.'
Terry Teachout / Critic
Both Sides
Sides
Atlantic
Audiences
Confident
Dumber
Literate
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My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.
Chuck Palahniuk / Novelist
Disdain
Reader
Smarter
Theory
Younger
Audiences
Books
Dumber
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The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.
Aaron Sorkin / Screenwriter
Anonymity
Internet
Opposite
General
Closer
Dumber
Meaner
Supposed
Troubling
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Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Attention Span
Art Great Music
Art Music Great
Dumber
Result
Span
Watered
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It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.
Gary Ackerman / Former U.s. Representative
Aisle
Blame
Real Friends
Dumber
Gotten
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Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.
Douglas Tompkins / Environmentalist
Cell Phone
Devices
Function
Logic
Cell
Dumber
Immersed
Imposed
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My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.
Michael Hirst / Screenwriter
Instinct
Recoil
Dumber
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I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.
Patrick Warburton / Actor
Children
Math
Vocabulary
Dumber
Grade
Sharp
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I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won't be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are.
Scott Adsit / Actor
Sitcom
Dumber
More And More
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Private Sector
Government People Doing
Dumber
Idiots
Sector
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Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.
Flea /
Blunders
Intellectual
Little Bit
Spiritual
Type
Wiser
Younger
Bit
Less
Turning
Definitely
Dumber
Gigantic
Likely
Moment
Physical
Sharp
Stock
Taking
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The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.
Emily Oster / Economist
Prove
Your Will Children
Your Will Nothing
Causal
Claim
Your Children Nothing
Dumber
Forced
Households
Your Child
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The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.
Frank Black /
Female
Male
Dumber
Instantly
Positive Way
Quicker
React
Responds
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I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.
Tim Pratt / Writer
Smarter
Worthwhile
Agreed
Dumber
Grown-Ups
Smarts
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