Deaf Community Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

Piper Perabo

#3. Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about it, thinking well, gee, the deaf community could really use this, or the hard-of-hearing community as well.

Vint Cerf

#4. 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

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

Lupe Ontiveros

#6. You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together ... You are my heroes.

Tom Harkin

#7. In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss ... you have to have hearing loss.

Katie Leclerc

#8. The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors.

Sean Berdy

#9. The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.

Richard Masur

#10. 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

#11. The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

Constance Marie

#12. The Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

Lucretia Mott

#13. I continue to wish that writing were easier, that it would flow out completely perfect with no need for revisions.

Ann Turner

#14. Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

John Green

#15. My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

Ray Lamontagne

#16. War is the supreme form of prestige.

Simone Weil

#17. There's something magical about a woman who feels comfortable in her own skin.

Brooke Burke

#18. To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget ... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

Gary Cole

#19. Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face-to-face meetings. "There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat," he said. "That's crazy.

Walter Isaacson

#20. Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

Robertson Davies

#21. I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

Richard Masur

#22. You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

Zach Johnson

#23. We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.

Ice Cube

#24. If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.

Marie Curie

#25. I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.'

Eve Hewson

#26. The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

Arthur Adamov

#27. It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion.

Frederick Lenz