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

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

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

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.

A Klan member is not stamped from a standard cookie cutter. They come from all walks of life and various education levels and environmental situations which have led to their decision to join the Klan. The one common denominator that all share is lack of exposure to others who may not look like them or believe as they do.

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?

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.

The common denominator in life is that in a thousand years, none of us is going to be here. Even if I were the fastest guy in the world, in a thousand years the result would be the same. I'd be dead and buried, and no one would remember or care.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man's inhumanity to man.

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work and it seems to improve the prognosis.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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