Deafness Quotes - Page 3

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  Federico Fellini

  Life, Work, Communication

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  Flora Lewis

  Learning, Thinking, German Language

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• I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

  Camryn Manheim

  Jobs, Careers, People

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• Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

  Larry David

  Bird, Trying, Able

  "Curb Your Enthusiasm". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (2000– ).

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• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Communication, Different, World

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• Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

  Helen Keller

  People, Womens Rights, Blindness

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• Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.

  Karen Russell

  Pain, Pockets, Body

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• I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.

  John Berryman

  Artist, Ideas, Achievement

  "EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2010.

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• How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

  Marlee Matlin

  Real, People, Caves

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• People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

  Milan Kundera

  Reality, People, Deaf

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• None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

  Matthew Henry

  Deaf And Blind, Blind, Deaf

  "Exposition of the Old and New Testament".

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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

  Heart, Matter, Deaf

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• Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, Four, Oscars

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• I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

  Marlee Matlin

  Winning, Oscars, Deaf

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• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. King Hussein Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

  Barbara Jordan

  Kings, Mistake, Dark

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• All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

  Marlee Matlin

  Baseball, Stars, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Children, People, Grace

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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

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Being tone deaf to religion does matter" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2012.

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• Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Peace, Heart

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• Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Dream, Anger, Two

  Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.181, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as we have been exploring, there are also times when certainty and single-mindedness indicate something less admirable: a deafness to voices that should be heard or a blindness to aspects of a situation that need to be considered.

  Simon Blackburn

  Integrity, Voice, Doe

  Simon Blackburn (2014). “Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love”, p.173, Princeton University Press

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• A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.

  Paul Simon

  Jobs, Educational, Understanding

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• A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Beautiful, Art, Doe

  "The Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church". Book by Vittorio Messori, ‎Benedict XVI, 1985.

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• Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

  Richard Masur

  People, Speech, Deaf

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• No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Lying, Ignorance, Mouths

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