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The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind. -- Marlee Matlin
I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. -- Marlee Matlin
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. -- David Hockney
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. -- Horace Walpole
Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena. -- Edward Miner Gallaudet
I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' at Chicago's Center on Deafness in Northbrook, Illinois. -- Marlee Matlin
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
But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant. -- Richard Masur
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. -- Ernst Mach
At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access. -- I. King Jordan
Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write. -- Lord Chesterfield
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. -- William Shakespeare
My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout. -- Jethro Tull
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. -- Helen Keller
Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together. -- I. King Jordan
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. -- Victor Hugo
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
The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people. -- Michael Dukakis
I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave. -- Stephanie Beacham
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. -- John Cheever
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. -- Milan Kundera
John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden. -- Bill Dedman
I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear. -- Marlee Matlin
I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting. -- Boris Pasternak
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure. -- Marlee Matlin
On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person. -- Theodore Zeldin
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
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear. -- Marlee Matlin
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man. -- Helen Keller
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people. -- Helen Keller
To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind. -- Alec Douglas-Home
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness -- John Green
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
I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave. -- Stephanie Beacham
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
Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness. -- Harriet Lerner
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
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

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