A Quote by Ash Sarkar

International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism. Look beyond the pink beer and pyjamas; as feminists we need to be concerned with payslips and passports.

Ash Sarkar

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Ash Sarkar
British - Journalist
Born: April 17, 1992

If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

Rush Limbaugh

We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy - like the fart joke!

Eddie Griffin

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

R. A. Lafferty

I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.

Jessica Valenti

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

Patricia Piccinini

A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.

Julie Andrews

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

Jim DeMint

Any woman's right to self-identify is a personal freedom I fight for, and those women who claim trans women are not women are perpetuators of gender-based oppression, and all feminists should be upset and moved to action against this.

Janet Mock

The problem with American cinema is that because you're making films with huge amounts of money you need to hit the lowest common denominator in order to make it back and so therefore you're not allowed to play with moral ambiguities or ask questions.

David MacKenzie

The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

Edgar Wright

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Spike Lee

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

Randall Jarrell

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

Charles Dance

Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.

Terence Winter

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

I don't see any point in having a public service broadcaster which attempts to compete with the commercial sector. Obviously part of its remit is to entertain, but entertainment doesn't necessarily mean scraping the bottom of the barrel and appealing to the very lowest common denominator.

Jonathan Meades

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