Magdi Yacoub Quotes
What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
Quotes to Explore
-
We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
-
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
-
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
-
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
-
Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
-
Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
-
Incommensurables cannot be compared.
-
There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
-
Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
-
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
-
We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
-
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
-
I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
-
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
-
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
-
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
-
I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
-
I watch a lot of football.
-
I don't like to overcook songs.
-
Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?
-
I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
-
Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
-
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.
-
What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
