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

R. A. Lafferty

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R. A. Lafferty
American - Writer
November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002

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

Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make that common denominator memorable.

Henry Mancini

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

Jenna Elfman

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

Patricia Piccinini

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

Jim DeMint

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

Julie Andrews

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

Edgar Wright

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

Randall Jarrell

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

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

Charles Dance

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

Jimmy Carter

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

Eddie Griffin

I want to say to anyone who works in a drone workplace, raise the bar! There's no reason why you have to dress to the lowest common denominator.

Tim Gunn

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

Meghan Daum

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Mary Badham

The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage to a lowest common denominator approach that privileges the parochial interests of small populations.

Gladys Berejiklian

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