Genes Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. 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. Economic freedom - not democracy, and not ecological stewardship - is the defining metaphor of the WTO and its central goal is humanity's mastery of the natural world through its total commodification.

  Maude Barlow

  Heart, Air, Water

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• 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

  Bacteria, Seeds, Insert

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• If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance!

  Dorian Yates

  Guy, Chance, Intense

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