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• Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Opportunity, Thinking, Superhero

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• It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

  Alexander McQueen

  Blood, Where You Come, Today

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• At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Levels, Genes, Code

  "Richard Dawkins on the Truth of Evolution". "NOW with Bill Moyers", billmoyers.com. 2004.

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• A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Humanity, World, Persons

  "Human Clones: Why Not?" by Nathan Myhrvold, www.slate.com. March 14, 1997.

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• I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

  Alber Elbaz

  Beautiful, Jobs, Clothes

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• In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.

  Helen Fisher

  Winning, Tomorrow, Courtship

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• I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

  Javier Bardem

  Streets

  "On the Cover: Javier Bardem" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. September 20, 2012.

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• My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.

  Dave Pelzer

  Fans, Buying, Dave

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• I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Hands, Needs, Film

  “Action Heroine” by Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. June 10, 2009.

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• New York is in my DNA.

  Joe Lhota

  New York

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview With Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

  Roger Ebert

  Helping, Protagonists, Identifying

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• I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Educational, Black, Culture

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• I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.

  Denis Leary

  Kids, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  War, Moon, Threat

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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, Swag, Labor Day

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• Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Jobs, Educational

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.40, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Religious, Ivf, Cells

  "Human Clones: Why Not?" by Nathan Myhrvold, www.slate.com. March 14, 1997.

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• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Jobs, Needs

  "Gary Vaynerchuk gives personal brand top billing". Interview with John Warrillow, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 29, 2010.

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• I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this idea - DNA, lifestyle, words I hate.

  Marc Jacobs

  Hate, Thinking, Order

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• If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mean, Thinking, Common

  "After the Beer Summit". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2010.

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• The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Grandma, Long, People

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• If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

  Kathy Reichs

  School, Degrees, Needs

  "Bones Inspiration Kathy Reichs Writes Episode 5.20 The Witch in the Wardrobe". Interview with Alan Orange, tvweb.com. May 4, 2010.

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• We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?"

  John Lennox

  God, Intelligent, Names

  John C. Lennox (2011). “God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?”, p.74, Lion Books

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• To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Machines, Designer, Protein

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered.

  Ernst Boris Chain

  Faces, Principles, Events

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