"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

#Dad Quotes #Boys Quotes #Egypt Quotes

“Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.”
“If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.”
“The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.”
“Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.”
“In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.”
“A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.”
“Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.”
“Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.”

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