"I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly."

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Source : "Interview with Hal Linden TV Star, "Song & Dance Man", Hearing Aid Wearer". Interview with Dr. Beck, www.audiologyonline.com. May 23, 2005.

Hal Linden

#People Quotes #Hearing Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”

Source : 1267 Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).
“While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.”
“The water is this marvellous blue. Itâ€™s so blue that once you see it you realise youâ€™ve never seen blue before. That other thing you were calling blue is some other colour, itâ€™s not blue. This, this is blue. Itâ€™s a blue that comes down from the sky into the water so that when you look in the sea you think sky and when you look at the sky you think sea.”
“Often we'd secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn't that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to - and all without hurting anybody. Look at that lovely girl I've just shot!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I thought the Egyptians had cured baldness.”
“I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.”
“I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
“People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.”

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