Top 1200 Lowest Common Denominator Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator.

Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

Food is a common denominator for all people.

If there's a common denominator in all of the parts I've played, they are all strong women in tough situations.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead of restricting our lives and accepting the lowest common denominator of a dormant existence? Faith. . . will permit us to take a chance on a new path, perhaps different from the one we now follow. It may be surprising where it leads.

The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.

We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator - or to those who conceal their differences behind fixed smiles - or to those who measure unity by standards of popularity and affection, instead of trust and respect. We are allies. This is a partnership, not an empire. We are bound to have differences and disappointments - and we are equally bound to bring them out into the open, to settle them where they can be settled, and to respect each other's views when they cannot be settled.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

Shops and clubs are very important when you want to change things. And they have a common denominator; the customer.

Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

I remember, when they started remaking 'Star Wars,' the fury that surrounded that whole thing, and, 'How dare they?' But now, that's just a common denominator.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and worked in the Clinton White House, so I have connections and allegiances to both candidates. [...] But I cannot remain silent any longer while my own senator destroys the Democratic Party, and her own reputation, in a desperate and degrading effort to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It's time for Senator Clinton to act like a leader that I know she can be. Hillary Clinton not only needs to defend Barack Obama, she needs to apologize to him.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

The common denominator for success is work.

The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.

I always go to the lowest common denominator for that ingredient. So if I think squash, I try to think what it means to me -- and if it doesn't mean anything to me, I'm not gonna do well when I cook it. So [squash] means to me: fall, maple syrup, cinnamon, and things just come into your head so you can narrow the vortex and make it a bit smaller and you go with something because there's no time.

We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.

Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you're considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it's not lowest common denominator.

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

The common denominator is a love of music.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

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.

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.

Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

The common denominator is that we all need help.

Socialism, leftism, liberalism not only doesn't respect the unique abilities of free people; it attempts to quash them and to eliminate them. Because it's unfair not only to have more than somebody else, it's unfair to be better than anybody else at whatever you do. That's not fair. So we define everything down to the lowest common denominator. We take the people at the top, bring 'em down to people at the bottom and say that's equality. We punish achievement if liberalism and leftism rules the day. But capitalism is where the respect for unique abilities and freedom resides.

All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature. It's diluted down to very little: simple stories and simple politics.

The common denominator of the great women leaders in the world - Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir - is that they're dramatically nonsexual.