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I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.
- John Scalzi
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I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too, for a while.
- Roger Taylor
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The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.
- Constance Marie
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France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.
- Wilfred Burchett
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I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.
- Jayne Meadows
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I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.
- Michael McKean
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I was actually tone deaf until I had tumors in my ears - I had very small ear canals - removed. Once they fixed that, I was actually able to sing in a pleasant manner.
- Lauren Worsham
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'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.
- Gayle Lynds
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I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.
- Jorja Fox
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I've done everything imaginable as a mother and a coal miner's daughter to create a brighter future for our children, and it fell on deaf ears.
- Paula Jean Swearengin
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Because we make ourselves deaf to feedback, because we overestimate our abilities, because we become consumed with ourselves, we end up subjecting ourselves not just to the inevitable stumbles or difficulties of life but catastrophic, painful failures.
- Ryan Holiday
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When I lost my hearing, my mom got a deaf mentor to come into the home.
- Millicent Simmonds
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We do need more deaf people in Hollywood. But I don't think that deaf people always have to play a deaf role. I think we can play different roles. We need to see more diversity period. More people of color. More disabled people. More gender diversity. All kinds of diversity.
- Millicent Simmonds
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To really understand a deaf person's experience, you need someone that is deaf to be able to tell you what their experience is.
- Millicent Simmonds
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The deaf community relies so much on eye contact, expression and body language. It's such a huge part of who we are.
- Millicent Simmonds
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Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class.
- Richard Sherman
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I've seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write.
- Rachel Shenton
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'Switched at Birth' has an amazing cast, including an Oscar winner and two Emmy nominees. The writing is very innovative, and the show's producers have redefined U.S. TV by launching a mainstream show which includes multiple deaf cast members whose characters communicate only in ASL (American Sign Language).
- Rachel Shenton
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With the right support, a deaf child can do exactly the same as a hearing child, yet constantly, they're being failed.
- Rachel Shenton
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Inequality within the deaf and hard of hearing community is something I feel really passionate about and always will do.
- Rachel Shenton
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Audiences I speak to are often openly hostile, and I know my arguments might fall on deaf ears with 99% of the audience.
- Douglas Murray
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Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.
- Maurice Flanagan
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The availability of roles for deaf actors has always been very limited. After 'Switched at Birth' began including deaf actors, a ripple effect has definitely been created in the industry. 'Switched at Birth' has made an impact for the better.
- Sean Berdy
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When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.
- Stephanie Beacham
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I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.
- Stephanie Beacham
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But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
- Stephanie Beacham
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I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.
- Stephanie Beacham
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I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.
- Louis Tomlinson
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I am truly humbled. Not only that I am going to be known as the final Top Model but as a final Top Model who is deaf! And that is an amazing tagline. This proves that deaf people can do anything and everything.
- Nyle DiMarco
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In middle school, I had the best math teacher I've ever had, and he was deaf... and I felt inspired by him. I knew from then on that I wanted to be a math teacher.
- Nyle DiMarco
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I grew up with deaf teachers, and I thought all deaf children should have exposure to deaf educators.
- Nyle DiMarco
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I am one hundred percent ready to be a spokesperson for the deaf community.
- Nyle DiMarco
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There are so many deaf kids out there being deprived of their own language.
- Nyle DiMarco
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I got my mathematics degree because I wanted to teach deaf children math.
- Nyle DiMarco
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I'm really excited to educate the world about what deaf people can do.
- Nyle DiMarco
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I started to realize that there are a lot of people who are unaware of deaf culture, and I've been given a great platform to reframe the deaf community.
- Nyle DiMarco
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I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.
- Nyle DiMarco
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We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don't realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.
- Nyle DiMarco
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
- Pete Townshend
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Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.
- Sean Berdy
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On a bus ride through China, my family and I had talked for hours before a police officer boarded to conduct an inspection. My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.
- Lee Hyeon-seo
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I'm happy being deaf. I'm happy with my life and my family.
- Millicent Simmonds
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Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.
- Michael Arden
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It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.'
- Michael Arden
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I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf.
- Mandy Harvey
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I really wanted to change the idea of what is possible and to show that 'deaf can' and what better place to do that than on national television?
- Mandy Harvey
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So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
- Carmen Busquets
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Would I have signed to Def Jam if I knew they was deaf? Nah.
- Jeremih
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If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.
- William Wyler
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Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.
- Alexander Graham Bell
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
- I. King Jordan
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In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.
- Godfrey Reggio
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I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.
- James Nachtwey
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
- Zach LaVine
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One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
- Stephanie Beacham
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Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
- Robert Toombs
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Brexit can tend to be a dialogue of the deaf.
- Fiona Bruce
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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
- Elias Canetti
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A friend got attacked outside a nightclub just for being deaf. I stuck up for him but ended up getting in a bit of a trouble myself. I played with a tag at Stocksbridge. I had a little curfew. Luckily, it didn't stop me playing football. Being put on a tag, I could have lost playing football again.
- Jamie Vardy
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I am tone deaf.
- Rachelle Lefevre
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Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.
- Shoshannah Stern
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The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.
- Olivia Williams
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When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.
- Marlee Matlin
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He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.
- Menachem Begin
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And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
- Evelyn Glennie
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I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.
- Evelyn Glennie
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Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.
- Julian Baggini
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
- I. King Jordan
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
- Adam Michnik
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I can't add above 10, I can't draw a stick figure, and I'm tone deaf. So I had to be able to do something. I found that something was picking successful models.
- Eileen Ford
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Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.
- Martha Beck
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Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
- Herb Kohl
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Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.
- Gary Hamel
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
- Carl Karcher
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Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.
- Subcomandante Marcos
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I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster.
- Francois Hollande
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
- Albert Bandura
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
- Camryn Manheim
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I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.
- Shoshannah Stern
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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
- Frank Herbert
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At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.
- Marlee Matlin
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I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.
- Marlee Matlin
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When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.
- Sue Townsend
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Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
- Ford Frick
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Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
- Vint Cerf
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I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
- Loretta Young
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Unknown
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- Leo Tolstoy
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If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
- Thomas Fuller
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Walter Lippmann
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- Michel de Montaigne
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None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
- Matthew Henry
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