Genes Quotes - Page 12

• Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.
  Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?
  Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Thinking, Warhol

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• Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Knitting, Skills, People

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• Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

  Neal Barnard

  Food, Giving, Fuel

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• Technology is the gene uncorked.

  Jon Jones

  Technology

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• E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mail, Ability, Politeness

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• That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Dna, Receiving

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• We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.

  Caryl Churchill

  Cheer, Ninety Nine, Doe

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• The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

  Roy Wood

  People, Littles, Saws

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• Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

  Michael Schumacher

  Reality, Delay, Good Genes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. Shakespeare was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and Charles Dickens had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there is nobody who can even approach Gene Wolfe for brilliance of prose, clarity of thought, and depth in meaning

  Michael Swanwick

  Character, Mean, Hands

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• A lot of guys have better genes but if you work hard and consistently, you can outperform them.

  Frank Zane

  Hard Work, Bodybuilding, Guy

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• For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.

  Michael Behe

  Broken, Doubt, Stronger

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• The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

  E. O. Wilson

  World, Ancestor, Spread

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• New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

  Ernst Mayr

  Successful, Glowing, Giving

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, p.457, Harvard University Press

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• But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

  Neil Strauss

  Guidance, Enough, Habit

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Engineering, Gmos, Issues

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• I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

  Virginia Madsen

  Mother, Father, Native American

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Feb 03, 2017

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• No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

  Tommy Gibbons

  Color, Boxing, Heavyweights

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• Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

  Walter Gilbert

  Animal, Bacteria, Biology

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• I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

  Sebastian Barry

  Book, Blood, Play

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• Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

  Maude Barlow

  Health, Air, Water

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• Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.

  Declan Lynch

  Civilization, Funeral, Would Be

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• There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Science, Atoms, Three

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• I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone

  Dom DeLuise

  Dinner, Wilder

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• I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

  Robin Trower

  People, Jerry

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