Magdi Yacoub quotes

“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

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“I dont 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

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“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

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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.”
-- Magdi Yacoub

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“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

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“It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.”
-- Magdi Yacoub

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“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

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“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

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“My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.”

“I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.”

“There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'”

“What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.”

“Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.”

“Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.”

“These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

“It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.”

Source : Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

“The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.”

“Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.”