Stephen M. Ross

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?

American Businessman

Matthew McConaughey

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.

American Actor

Pete Townshend

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.

British Musician

Hannah Arendt

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

German Historian

Sarah Lancashire

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.

British Actress

W. H. Auden

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.

English Poet

Juliette Binoche

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.

French Actress

Laurence Fishburne

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

Spike Lee

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

American Director

Ray Romano

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

The denominator indicates the total number of parts in a fraction, not just the ones being considered.

Fraction Component

A larger denominator means smaller individual parts when the numerator is unchanged.

Relative Size

Denominators can describe parts of a whole beyond physical items, like time or probability.

Not Just Quantity

A common denominator represents a universal trait among diverse elements or individuals.

Unity in Diversity

In non-mathematical contexts, 'denominator' refers to a shared characteristic, not a number.

Beyond Math

Recognize 'common denominator' as a metaphorical way to find commonality.

Figurative Use

 you but for me and many other women around the world we see ourselves and our potential reflected in beyonce's content so for example when she says things like who run the world girls we see our potential reflected in that so this is really the common denominator of a lot of pop culture that we

How love can help repair...

 affecting more than a billion people worldwide, that all look on the surface to be different from one another, but all actually share abnormal angiogenesis as their common denominator. And this realization is allowing us to re-conceptualize the way that we actually approach these diseases,

Can we eat to starve...

 have actually fostered a sense of gratitude gratitude about what they do have how many of us here is tedsters in the audience spend more of our time in the bottom half of this equation in the denominator where we are a bottom-heavy culture in more ways than one

Measuring what makes...

 affecting more than a billion people worldwide that all look on the surface to be different from one another but all actually share abnormal angiogenesis as their common denominator in this realization is allowing us to reconceptualize the way that we actually

 Which is right? Two different mythologies, two different ways of looking at the world. One linear, one cyclical. One believes this is the one and only life. The other believes this is one of many lives. And so, the denominator of Alexander's life was one.

East vs west -- the...

 all have fostered a sense of gratitude about what they do have. How many of us here, as TEDsters in the audience, spend more of our time in the bottom half of this equation, in the denominator? We are a bottom-heavy culture in more ways than one.

Chip Conley: Measuring...

 to protect us against the things that are humanity's worst nightmare. And so my TED wish is based on the common denominator of these experiences. Smallpox -- early detection, early response. Blindness, polio -- early detection, early response.

Larry Brilliant: TED...

 this whole talk has been a mile wide and an inch deep, but that's really what works for me." And regardless of whether it's nuclear reactors or metamaterials or whale sex, the common -- or lowest common denominator -- is me.

Nathan Myhrvold: A life...

 from the numerator -- call it T1 -- where it increases impact, to the denominator -- call it T2 -- where it reduces impact? I thought about the characteristics of first industrial revolution,

Ray Anderson: The...

 there's a common denominator I think between magic fear and humor in that for all of them to be successful if you know