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Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. -- Richard Masur
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people. -- Vint Cerf
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process. -- Richard Masur
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. -- Leo Tolstoy
Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together. -- I. King Jordan
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf. -- Camryn Manheim
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. -- Rainn Wilson
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
One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people. -- Camryn Manheim
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
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
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community. -- Richard Masur
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
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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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
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed. -- Marlee Matlin
...beer makes people deaf... -- Maggie Stiefvater
Deaf people can do anything, except hear. -- Marlee Matlin
If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs? -- Bob Monkhouse
Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people. -- George Veditz
Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. -- Luis Bunuel
Music is inaudible to deaf people, just as dancing is invisible to me. -- Jarod Kintz
As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. -- George Veditz
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. -- Joseph Joubert
Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious. -- Linda Ronstadt
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people. -- Vint Cerf
We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped. -- Brandon Sanderson
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde
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
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. -- Chinua Achebe
I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people -- Joely Fisher
Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations. -- Barbara Kingsolver
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
There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door. -- Marlee Matlin
There are two worlds: the deaf world and the hearing world. There are some people in the deaf community that feel that hearing people look down on us. -- Sean Berdy
People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name. -- Marlee Matlin
Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear. -- I. King Jordan

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