Myron Uhlberg famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.
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Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?
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Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.
-- Myron Uhlberg
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.
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Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
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I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too.
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I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
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It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
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My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
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My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.
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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
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