Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.
Marlee Matlin
Related Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put... MARLEE MATLIN Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally differ... KRISTEN CROCKETT This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass o... DAPHNE DU MAURIER Every guy has different strengths in the NFL. Receivers are different, running backs are different, ... LARRY FITZGERALD Similar to siblings, French Fries all stem from the same family, the potato family. Yet each and eve... HANNAH HART It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeo... MANDY MOORE Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time.... KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some... CORY BOOKER What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We hav... JANE SEYMOUR It was tough for me because every one of them brings something different to the table for us. They a... ERIK GOETZ Every case is a different case, ... We'll give him all the attention that we can. At the same time, ... ERNIE GRUNFELD Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way.... KENNY G Kyle is going to have to carry the load for us. We have other kids that are stepping up. Most of it ... KYLE KISSACK We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing. JEREMY PIVEN We are not segmented as much as the Anglo market. You will see all those genres in one Spanish conce... GABRIEL MEZA Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, nei... HENRIK IBSEN For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining diff... LUKA SULIC He blesses us so we can be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Reversal is something that has been demonstrated in a number of different animals in a number of dif... GEORGE M. CHURCH I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we ... ROXANE GAY It's really an opportunity for us to learn about a different model. It's more importantly recognizin... ANNE SWEENEY Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an id... MARK HELPRIN You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their... RAM SHRIRAM I know that some people have different personas for the different things they do, and I'm not cr... PATTI SMITH There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music... DAISY BERKOWITZ People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we wil... DWIGHT SCHULTZ We have so many guys that can play in different spots. It's always nice to have guys who can play di... GREG HELLHAKE I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, a... MACKENZIE FOY The intangibles she offers us are amazing. She allows us to do many different things. And we have a ... MARTIN APPEL For us as coaches, we're in a different locker room. So we're coming in pregame, halftime. T... JASON KIDD I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. Y... CARICE VAN HOUTEN We’re all human, we should be respectful of others, and tolerant with each other. This matters mor... ANGELA NICOARA We don't think about them different. All that did for us was let us know that we can beat Hampton. W... BONAE HOLSTON Last year we got ragged on quite a bit, but I thought we were pretty good. The difference is this ye... JUSTIN DUCHSCHERER You're different. We all are. We are each "one of a kind." This means each of us will live the Chris... J. GRANT HOWARD God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we di... NINETTE DE VALOIS All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and lan... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, ... EUGENE IONESCO Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those w... DAVID BYRNE All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same pers... STEVEN SPIELBERG What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of... MARTIN CRUZ SMITH The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wr... C. JOYBELL C. We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with differe... WILLIAM SHATNER It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter M... LIONEL MESSI I've watched Moyer every outing this spring, just trying to learn from the way he pitches. The same ... JAKE WOODS We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For some, Into The Gloss is just a blog, and that's cool. For us, it's the connective tissue... EMILY WEISS Our defense is certainly very different from last year. We couldn't do too many things last year, we... GLENN THIEL I guess you could say its tough. But for the most part we've been winning that way, with different p... ASHANTI COOK The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I ca... MOBY There's always pressure that way, with the alumni who played here. That's a given coming in. That ha... FRED SKROCKI When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move int... ROBERT REDFORD His biggest thing is, ... is that we can do something different. Teams are starting to understand we... COREY MAGGETTE But the thing to remember is that nothing is free - someone has to feed the horse somewhere along th... JACK CASSIDY Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our... MARC MORIAL It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that lab... ORNETTE COLEMAN Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tic... CHRIS WOOD We are all different. No one can be the same. FRANCISCO ESCANDON Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendous... MAX LANDIS I am happy with the effort and with the result, but not with the execution. We made more than our sh... BART TOOLEY Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life... DEBASISH MRIDHA So much of the negotiations over Hong Kong has been more or less a question of Britain rolling over ... GERALD SEGAL Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a mov... SPIKE JONZE Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that... ERIC SCHLOSSER What stood out more than anything was she worked as hard as she possibly could every possession, eve... BETH BURNS As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do.... RANSOM RIGGS I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. Y... SANDRA CISNEROS Most of us can do more than we think but usually do less than we think we have. VIKRANT PARSAI We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so month... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Knowing the way he throws can help us. But it is a different team, a different offense now. WILL PETERSON We feel we can be very honest with each other. We know how to put things across. We have a chemistry... LAURA BACA We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us. VIVIENNE MING There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They t... J. R. SMITH We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different whe... MIKE COLTER You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with differ... ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY It is going to put us at a different level - the challenge will be whether we can sustain that. EDDIE MBALO Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgro... VIVIENNE MING When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in... JENNIFER GRANHOLM You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that i... SHARRON ANGLE They just have different customs, and we want to be knowledgeable and accept those customs. One of t... DAN ALLEN I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybody's doing more, doing more ... ALEX TIMBERS We can share the same history, but we have different experiences. TRAYVONE GARRETT Let us know our differences! Let us understand our differences! Let us know and understand that we a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I got love for Damon Dash as I did before. I don't know if we can be around each other in that w... JAY-Z I think we showed the coaches, the GMs and the fans that we can do the different things that they br... JOEY GRAHAM People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reaso... KEVIN SPACEY Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere ... AKSHAY VASU As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skill... JIM EVANS I'm a military baby, so I kind of always see the world as one; we just have different colours, a... CIARA Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through... LUIS FONSI What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are... BRIAN CHESKY It is just an opportunity for us to discuss the different word choices we choose to use that might h... DERICK VIRGIL This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of ye... MIKE HOLMGREN What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes... RANDY FALCO I'm not a confrontational person or comedian. I think we can explore more things if one of us is... TREVOR NOAH In every age, no matter how cruel the oppression carried on by those in power, there have been those... ANNE BRADEN Anxiety disorders, depression can cause the same appearance of the same symptoms (as ADHD), but you ... DONNA PALUMBO We feel that it is important for us to connect as a family and since we leave at different times in ... SANDY SMITH
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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a you... MARLEE MATLIN I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I... MARLEE MATLIN The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes ver... MARLEE MATLIN I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago... MARLEE MATLIN During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be d... MARLEE MATLIN I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to &... MARLEE MATLIN I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happ... MARLEE MATLIN At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress. MARLEE MATLIN The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap... MARLEE MATLIN Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can. MARLEE MATLIN 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... MARLEE MATLIN I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, ... MARLEE MATLIN I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I... MARLEE MATLIN You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. ... MARLEE MATLIN I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.... MARLEE MATLIN It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. MARLEE MATLIN Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me. MARLEE MATLIN I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. MARLEE MATLIN I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine. MARLEE MATLIN When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the b... MARLEE MATLIN There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a... MARLEE MATLIN Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put... MARLEE MATLIN The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind. MARLEE MATLIN The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth. MARLEE MATLIN What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it click... MARLEE MATLIN Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet. MARLEE MATLIN I would love to do a talk show. Naturally, I would love to do more films. I'd love to be able to... MARLEE MATLIN I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a millio... MARLEE MATLIN I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent de... MARLEE MATLIN We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilit... MARLEE MATLIN I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitu... MARLEE MATLIN I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of O... MARLEE MATLIN How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to... MARLEE MATLIN There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn... MARLEE MATLIN Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if y... MARLEE MATLIN I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was ... MARLEE MATLIN In the deaf community, there are different types of people who have different philosophies. Some bel... MARLEE MATLIN I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my ... MARLEE MATLIN Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private sch... MARLEE MATLIN Picket Fences. MARLEE MATLIN Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they se... MARLEE MATLIN If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a sta... MARLEE MATLIN I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood. MARLEE MATLIN I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit o... MARLEE MATLIN I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual im... MARLEE MATLIN When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand i... MARLEE MATLIN Got the will, finding the way. MARLEE ARMSTRONG I thought we gave good effort, but when we had opportunities we didn't take advantage of them. MARLEE WEBB We handled their pressure really well. We didn't let them go on any big runs and that helped us a gr... MARLEE WEBB Maybe she's a spaghetti girl.....straight until wet. JODI LERNER (MARLEE MATLIN'S L WORD CHARACTER)