Magdi Yacoub Quotes
If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.
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A couple of people are strongly considering running there but have yet to make their final decision. We're pretty confident that we will have a good candidate there.
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You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
