#deaf

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

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This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection. ↗

— Paul O'Neill

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Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way. ↗

— Lupe Ontiveros

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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

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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. ↗

— Jayne Meadows

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

— Matthew Henry

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For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more. ↗

— Richard Masur

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