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Common Denominator Quotes
What gets lost when everyone settles for less.
Each quote here criticizes settling for the lowest common denominator, whether in wilderness designation exceptions, company technology choices, or how film characters can start to resemble each other. Related phrasing also appears on the Denominator page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way in sports. Why can't society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?
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If there's a common denominator in all of the parts I've played, they are all strong women in tough situations.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.
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Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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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.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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- Nov 07, 2020