Paul Raci So that is a shift I’ve seen from growing up: watching my parents feel oppressed by the hearing man, to now deaf people being empowered with their own identity. That’s very refreshing. – Paul Raci Deaf Quotes Empowered Quotes Feel Quotes Growing Quotes Hearing Quotes Identity Quotes Oppressed Quotes Parents Quotes People Quotes Refreshing Quotes Shift Quotes Watching Quotes When I graduated from the University of Illinois, I sat down with my acting teacher, Bill Raffeld. I go, ‘Bill, what’s next for me?’ I’m all excited. And he says, ‘Paul, I don’t think you’re going to have any success until you’re much older.’ I said, ‘Nobody wants to hear that! What are you talking about?’ When my mother took me to the movies in 1956 to see ‘Love Me Tender’ with Elvis Presley, what I didn’t realize is I’d have to interpret that whole movie for her while I was sitting there. There was no captioning, no accessibility for deaf people for pop culture.
Ryan Bethencourt Biology – DNA – is technology. It is coding. It is physical coding, but still code. – Ryan Bethencourt
Scott Turow Black Beauty,’ by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7. – Scott Turow
FailureMichael Jordan I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
Paige Spiranac It’s hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be. – Paige Spiranac
John Pistole We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling. – John Pistole
Eudora Welty I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. – Eudora Welty
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