quotes about Deaf
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
-- Adam Michnik -
If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud
-- Bhagat SinghSource : "Awakening Indians to India" by Chinmaya Yuva Kendra, (p. 82), 2008.
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Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.
-- Daniel Keyes -
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
-- Elias Canetti -
I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.
-- Evelyn Glennie -
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
-- Ford Frick -
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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 -
Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.
-- Geoffrey MooreSource : "The Business Book". Book, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2014.
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Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.
-- George Veditz -
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A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf
-- Harold Larwood -
if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
-- Hortense CalisherSource : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.33, Open Road Media
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Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.
-- John Gielgud -
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Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
-- John Heywood -
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 -
I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
-- Ken Kesey -
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
-- Loretta Young -
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The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.
-- Lupe OntiverosSource : "Spreading the Word: A Deaf Boy Joins the Gang" by Elizabeth Jensen, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2006.
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Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.
-- Margaret Atwood -
If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.
-- Marion Zimmer Bradley -
I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.
-- Marlee Matlin -
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When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.
-- Marlee Matlin -
At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.
-- Marlee Matlin -
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 -
Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.
-- Paul Tournier -
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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 -
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
-- Richard Masur -
There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan -
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
-- Stephanie Beacham -
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
-- Terence McKenna -
As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible!
-- Heather Whitestone -
Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.
-- Kevin ShieldsSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times.
-- Paul Laffoley -
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
-- Roger L'Estrange -
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
-- Roman JakobsonSource : Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy (1987). “Language in Literature”, p.94, Harvard University Press
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Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.
-- George Veditz