Magdi Yacoub Quotes
As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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When it comes to your personal life, such as love and romance, girls should take a tip from the men and keep their affairs to themselves. Any man worth his salt regards his private life as his own. To kiss a girl and run and tell would mark him as a cad. Why doesn't that apply to girls also?
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I'm not surprised by our start. That's what we planned to do before the season started because we have a lot of kids coming back who played a lot last season.
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When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.
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When you watch someone on TV go through something that you're going through that's difficult, it lets you know that you're not alone, and there's nothing to be ashamed of.
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As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
