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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.

  Mick Jagger

  Saws, Wells, I Can

  "Jagger Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.mickjagger.com. December 14, 1995.

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• The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Meaning Of Life, Way

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

  Warren Buffett

  America, Lucky, Wealth

  "The Giving Pledge". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 28, 2010.

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• Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

  Jennifer Grant

  Happiness, Dad, Father

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

  David Baltimore

  Years, Numbers, Answers

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• I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

  James Belushi

  Brother, Dad, Character

  "The Belushis: Funny is in their bones" by Rick Kogan, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2012.

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• I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

  Jim Broadbent

  Selfish, Thinking, Sometimes

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• 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

  Dancer, Inspired, Bigger

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• I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

  Billy Crudup

  Hero, Thinking, Wish

  "Billy Crudup Bares All". Parade Interview, parade.com. March 3, 2009.

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• We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.

  Francis Crick

  Together, Would Be, Answers

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• I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

  Tim DeKay

  Age, Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy

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• In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Science, Eggs, Organization

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• I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

  David Cassidy

  Eye, Hair, Looks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Way, Lasts, Able

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• Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Fall, Jumping, Stripes

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• New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Add, Pests, Disease

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• Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

  Peter Guber

  Successful, Journey, Bumps

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• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  Frances Mayes

  Italian, Eyebrows, Georgia

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• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

  Walter Gilbert

  Trying, Today, Study

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• 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

  Mammals, Able, Term

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• There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

  Chris Isaak

  Hair, Resemblance Is, People

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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

  Guy, Bob, Wanted

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• Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creativity, Angel, Blessing

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• If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Discovery, Years

  "An Oncologist Writes 'A Biography Of Cancer'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2010.

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• Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

  Robert Quine

  Records, Four, Five

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