A Quote by Tim Gunn

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

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Tim Gunn
American - Designer
Born: July 29, 1953

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

Jimmy Carter

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

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

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

R. A. Lafferty

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

Patricia Piccinini

For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses' want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies want to give the masses what they want.

Steven Johnson

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

The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

John Oliver

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

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

Stephen Fry

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

Charles Dance

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.