Yacoub Quotes

#1. Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the bank's money and you're just another one of their creditors.

Kenneth Eade

#2. AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.

Pat Buchanan

#3. You can't be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

Austin Kleon

#4. My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

Magdi Yacoub

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

Magdi Yacoub

#6. Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

Jeremy Jackson

#7. 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.

Magdi Yacoub

#8. Please dinna tell me ye are taking a bath...naked...because I'm getting a hard-on just thinking about watching ye."
"Isna that how one takes a bath? Naked?

Vonnie Davis

#9. Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.

Lance Henriksen

#10. Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

Magdi Yacoub

#11. As you know, in the 2000 campaign I articulated a point of view that we ought to have personal savings accounts for younger workers that would make sure those younger workers receive benefits equal to or greater than that which is expected, ... I still maintain the same position.

George H. W. Bush

#12. I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

Magdi Yacoub

#13. As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

Magdi Yacoub

#14. The perfect servant is the one who attends to all the master's whims - anyone can do that - but the one who anticipates the whims.

Michael Foley

#15. if you were more unwilling to put up with negative emotion, your lives would go a whole lot better for you. You have trained yourselves to be willing to endure misalignment. And then you make decisions without the clarity that you're talking about.

Wayne W. Dyer

#16. Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

James Purefoy

#17. I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

Magdi Yacoub

#18. The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

Magdi Yacoub

#19. Don't love anything that can be taken away.

Ron Rash

#20. I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

Magdi Yacoub

#21. I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

Magdi Yacoub

#22. They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).

Giacomo Casanova

#23. 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.

Magdi Yacoub

#24. Fighter pilots. What idiot idea possessed me to put fighter pilots at the controls of starships?

Evan Currie

#25. Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Phyllis Schlafly

#26. Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson