“Worrying about offending people drags us back to the lowest common denominator Our enemies are not the digital bits that dance across… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“ You are the only common denominator in everything that has happened to you in life, be it good or bad. To… — AC Anderson Copy Share Image
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a… — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than… — Carl W. Ackerman Copy Share Image
I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
Christian musicians today, minus about ten bands, have never had to fight to be accepted or heard like general market bands have… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
Humility: The realization of our dependence on God. I have always had strong feelings about that word regardless of what anyone's background… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Youth leaders, are you holding aloft our standards, or have you compromised them for the lowest common denominator in order to appease… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“Studying the history of our ancestors is instructive. I understand some of my parents’ struggles and sacrifices. I am acquainted with my… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“ You have a poem called “Bad Theology.” What would you call a bad theology? I guess any theology that presumes to… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
“Richard Foster is justified in writing: I am concerned that our reading and our writing is gravitating to the lowest common denominator… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Conflict and differences. People share so much in common, yet are so magnificently different. They think differently; they have different and sometimes… — RosettaBooks Copy Share Image
... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“…the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society’ll… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Yet the flip side of the coin was all the positive literature about radium. As early as 1914, specialists knew that radium… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“In the continually shifting marketplace of ideas, religious concepts and speculations about our spiritual destiny, there is one book which stands apart… — Grant R. Jeffrey Copy Share Image
I have noticed a common denominator among my smart and successful single friends, who tend to over-analyze and underestimate the opposite sex… — Lauren Iungerich Copy Share Image
“[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Obama is playing to the lowest common denominator of everybody, and he is telling them that if anybody's got more money than… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Der kleinste gemeinsame Nenner ist ein Klumpen Dreck, an den sich alle klammern müssen. // The lowest common denominator is a piece… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same… — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I want to say to anyone who works in a drone workplace, raise the bar! There's no reason why you have to… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy - like the fart joke! — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators.… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television. — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
“I think horror can and should be classy. I enjoy seeing it raised up not lowered down to the lowest common denominator.… — Carole Gill Copy Share Image
“The loss or the absence of meaning in life is perhaps the most common denominator of all forms of emotional distress; it… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
I think that democracy has a lowest common denominator thing going on, so it might be the best of a bad bunch… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
“Why was America so kind and yet so cruel? Was there no way to simplifying things in this continent so that suffering… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
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