Magdi Yacoub Quotes

It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

Magdi Yacoub

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• I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Best

• I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Amazing
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• There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Important
  • Play
  • Fall

• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • People
  • Why
  • Technology

• Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
  • Mistake
  • Emotional

• Wherever I find love I will accept it.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Love
  • Find
  • For Her

• Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Sleep
  • Famous
  • Lose

• Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Music
  • Action
  • Moments

• Tariq: For you, Laila, I'd go all over the world

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • World

• I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.

  

  Jeff Hardy

• The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Music
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• I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

  

  Corneille Ewango
  • Up
  • English

• Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Fool

• I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've written film and television, I find it incredibly hard to write theater.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Home
  • Truth

• When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the thread throughout my life.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Life
  • Air

• Life is long if you know how to use it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• In many countries, when I gave the name 'Rap Monster,' I often heard that it was 'too much.'

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Name
  • Countries

• The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.

  

  Mitchell Reiss
  • Because
  • Going
  • Region

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable