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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
-
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.
-
Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
-
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.
-
I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
-
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.
-
Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
-
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.
-
Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
-
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
-
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.
-
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
-
I just think political correctness is crap.
-
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
-
There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
-
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.
-
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
-
Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.
-
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
-
Despite the laserlike focus it generates, 'Tetris' has no clear endpoint and no easily defined opponents. Unlike with most other video games, you're playing only against yourself, without any concrete goals other than to keep on fitting blocks into other blocks.
-
As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
