Top 50 Common Denominator Quotes

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.

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world – and this isn’t a negative comment on her – from the lowest common denominator. It’s not all gray to her; it’s all black and white.

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

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.

People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.

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.

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.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

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.

Food is a common denominator for all people.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

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

I think there’s a fundamental distinction between character-driven movies that are just really lovely slice-of-life movies and character-driven movies that you remember 20 or 30 years later; the common denominator with the ones you remember is that they all have some really complicated emotional problem at their core.

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.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They’re trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

I think network TV to a large extent has underestimated the intelligence of the American public for so many years now. It’s tried to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think the average viewer is much more intelligent than that and crave a little more complexity and are willing to pay more attention.

In both snooker and poker, you have to play your best under pressure; I was always able to do that. I don’t think it is something you can teach. Your mental strength, your confidence, your self-belief has got to be very strong. That is the common denominator.

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

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he understands the common denominator of man, his emotions and relationships.

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

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

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

What the Americans have done is refuse to back down. They’ve refused to make the cheapest, lowest common denominator forms of entertainment for TV and instead have championed television drama as an important part of our culture.

People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

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.

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.

I’m an anarchist. I’m implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

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.

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.

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

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

Am I attracted to people who want to give other people a voice? Yes I am, and that may be a ‘common denominator with the characters that I play.

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

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Email is the lowest common denominator. It’s the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn’t really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you’re sending a message to a human you don’t know well, you’re using email.

There was supposedly no point showing ‘Nightbreed’ to critics because the people who see these movies don’t read reviews, in brackets, even if they can read at all! Immediately it was disqualified from serious criticism. Therefore, it had to be sold to the lowest common denominator.

Schools unable to keep their lights on and their doors open for the full working week is just the latest bleak instalment of a long-running show. The age of austerity returns for its ninth miserable year; always in the background, the common denominator in everything from the Brexit vote to knife crime.

At the end of the day, you can change coaches and managers and players, but if there’s something intrinsic, something wrong, then you have to look at what the common denominator is, and, usually, you’ve got to look at the ownership because everything runs from there.

Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many public performers, that was the first place I was ever invited to sing.

The more I talk to people who are at a place I’d like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

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 don’t view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It’s a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.

A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It’s not always someone else’s fault. If you’re the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn’t work out, then maybe, just maybe… it’s you!

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

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

Email has the virtue – sounds like a bad thing, but it’s the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It’s not some particular company‘s platform.

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

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

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