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Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.
I have my own foundation, Nyle DiMarco Foundation, and it focuses on bettering deaf youths' lives.
I have always aspired to be the type of role model who can bridge the deaf and hearing communities.
I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.
Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.
I grew up with deaf teachers, and I thought all deaf children should have exposure to deaf educators.
I was very shy. I didn't really hang around with hearing people very much. Mostly I had deaf friends.
There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.
When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.
I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.
He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.
Unfortunately, the heart played its own tune, and it was deaf to what the head tried to tell it.’ – Abigail
I just think that Stephen Miller is completely tone deaf when it comes to reforming our immigration system.
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.
I've seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write.
Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it's not talked about.
Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class.
The deaf community relies so much on eye contact, expression and body language. It's such a huge part of who we are.
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.
With the right support, a deaf child can do exactly the same as a hearing child, yet constantly, they're being failed.
Inequality within the deaf and hard of hearing community is something I feel really passionate about and always will do.
Audiences I speak to are often openly hostile, and I know my arguments might fall on deaf ears with 99% of the audience.
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.
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.
I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
There are many issues within the deaf community but, for me, none more important than access to education for deaf children.
To really understand a deaf person's experience, you need someone that is deaf to be able to tell you what their experience is.
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.
Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.
Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.
Since I knew my deaf identity since birth, it wasn't hard for me to be comfortable, confident, and independent in a hearing world.
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
You need to be able to communicate what you feel - good or bad. But when I feel things are falling on deaf ears, I take a step back.
Growing up, I never thought about becoming an actress because I never saw deaf people in TV or movies. I didn't think it was possible.
Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink.
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.
What I want to do is encourage more of that, more deaf presence in TV, movies, acting, modeling - that's really what I want to work toward.