quotes about Genes
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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
-- Albert Ellis -
I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.
-- Allen WestSource : "Top 10 Allen West lines" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. April 6, 2012.
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We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.
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I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
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Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not?
-- Bryan Sykes -
Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!
-- Charles StrossSource : Charles Stross (2006). “The Atrocity Archives”, p.32, Penguin
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You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.
-- Cody Lundin -
I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
-- Cris Judd -
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And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
-- Daniel Nathans -
A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.
-- Dave Barry -
We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.
-- David PerlmutterSource : David Perlmutter (2014). “Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers”, p.109, Hachette UK
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You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.
-- David ShieldsSource : David Shields (2008). “The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead”, p.3, Vintage
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I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone
-- Dom DeLuise -
Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.
-- Dwight Schultz -
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.
-- Edward Lawrie Tatum -
Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.
-- Eric RiesSource : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.3, Crown Business
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Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.
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A lot of guys have better genes but if you work hard and consistently, you can outperform them.
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What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered
-- Gavin de BeerSource : Sir Gavin De Beer (1971). “Homology: An Unsolved Problem”
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Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. Reported in 1981, as a co-founder of Genentech, Inc., a company to offer gene-splicing products.
-- Herbert Boyer -
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material.
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The gene as the basis of life.
-- Hermann Joseph MullerSource : Hermann Joseph Muller (1956). “Man's Place in Living Nature”
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I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
-- Hugh Hefner -
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I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.
-- Jamie DornanSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.
-- Jim Gaffigan -
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I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.
-- John C. McGinley -
I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.
-- Josh Brolin -
I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.
-- Judy LaMarshSource : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
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I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
-- Kate WalshSource : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
-- Larry Wall -
If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!
-- Lauren Hutton -
I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry
-- Lee MajorsSource : "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.
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I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.
-- Linda FiorentinoSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
-- Maeve Binchy -
As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
-- Maksim Chmerkovskiy -
I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.
-- Marcia Cross -
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If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.
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We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.
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The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene
-- Matt RidleySource : Matt Ridley (2012). “The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature”, p.9, Harper Collins
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Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.
-- Michael Schumacher -
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I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.
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Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.
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Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
-- Persis KhambattaSource : "Jordan Hoffman: The TrekMovie Interview, Part 2". trekmovie.com. August 4, 2018.
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I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.
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Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
-- Robert Quine -
You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.
-- Robert Winston -
I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.
-- Robin Cousins -
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I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
-- Robin Trower -
I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.
-- Tim DeKay -
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
-- Vandana Shiva -
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So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.
-- Veronica Roth -
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
-- Walter Gilbert -
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
-- Walter Gilbert -
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A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.
-- William H. Macy -
We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!
-- Cyrus Broacha -
DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.
-- Darren Hardy -
Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate.
-- David PapineauSource : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
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I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.
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I believe that the Belgians do possess some surrealistic gene.
-- Eddy de ClercqSource : Source: thequietus.com
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What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them.
-- Jonathan TrigellSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized.
-- Pamela Ronald -
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Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.
-- Matt Dunn