Genes Quotes - Page 28

• Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

  Gene Wilder

  Jobs, Real, Actors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

  John Medina

  Distance, Nuclear Families, Behavior

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.

  John Medina

  Color, Smell, Brain

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  World, Want, Rooms

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?

  Tony Blair

  Country, Media, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.

  Sandra Bullock

  Yummy, Chocolate, Likes

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• Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when you were a child, by your culture, by the fact that you were born a man or a woman. Destiny is a story that you write.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Children, Writing, Fate

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• On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

  A. S. Byatt

  Stars, Unique, Thinking

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• The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

  David Gerrold

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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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

  Comedy, Ends, 1930s

  Interview with Ricardo Poupada, www.askmen.com.

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• Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

  Keith Henson

  Family, Giving Up, Home

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• The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.

  David Icke

  Race, Talking, Fusion

  "Beset by lizards". Interview with Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

  Penn Jillette

  Sports, Missing, Golfers

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

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• In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

  Michio Kaku

  Imagine, Chimpanzees, Life Span

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• Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dna, Swag

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• My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Beautiful, Mom, Dad

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• I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Men, People, Actors

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

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• We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Sibling, Mean

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• 'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Rain, Fall, Mean

  Interview with Patti Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 05, 2010.

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• I didn't get the charm gene.

  Henry Paulson

  Charm

  "Eight Days" by James B. Stewart, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Memories, Parent, Energy

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• I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Mother, Father, Gambling

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• Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

  Steven Pinker

  Entirety, Genome

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• My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

  Aimee Bender

  Rope, Band, Stories

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• ...When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink. 'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked. Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.' It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Girl, Dad, Sunset

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