Genes Quotes - Page 13

• The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

  Susan Blackmore

  Sex, Taken, Modern

  Susan Blackmore (2000). “The Meme Machine”, p.141, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Dna, Essentials, Atoms

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marcus W. Feldman (1981). “Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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• I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

  Michael Douglas

  Pride, Four, Jew

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• Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

  David Perlmutter

  Expression, Medicine

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• And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.

  John Sheridan

  Ideas, Tree, Evolution

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• We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!

  Cyrus Broacha

  South

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• I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

  Trent Reznor

  Kids, Makeup, Men

  "Trent Reznor Explains the State of NIN" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 14, 2009.

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• ...cells are not controlled by genes and neither are we.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Cells, Controlled

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• The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

  Ray Romano

  Facts, Buisness, Let Me

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• Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized.

  Pamela Ronald

  Today, Introducing, Process

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• My mom is one, but there have been performers in my family since as long as we can trace them back, so I think it was kind of inevitable to be artistic and to have a force. We're leaders; we're a family of leaders, so I think it's just part of my genes.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where interactions with the environment are key.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Keys, Autism, Environment

  "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might actually be grabbing these viruses, grabbing genetic material from the viruses that are infecting it and pulling them into their own genome.

  Carl Zimmer

  Cells, Viruses, Might

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Of course the Disney movies, you know all the soundtracks, and anything Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire were doing - Singing in the Rain was one of my favorite musicals I used to watch a lot because my mom came from a theatre background.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Rain, Singing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If you find yourself in a relationship or even a friendship with someone who's conflicted with their gender identity, just be kind. This is not a life choice. This is something that you are born with. This is like being born with a gene for being tall, short, black, white, gay, straight - it's not a choice.

  Linda D. Thompson

  Gay, White, Choices

  Source: magazine.foxnews.com

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• Here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham in a very principled way standing up and defending Barack Obama. You had people like Gene Robinson and a lot of other liberals, who said, and this I personally agree with, however flawed Rand Paul was as a messenger, we need a debate about this. The administration has not been forthcoming enough about its drone policy.

  E. J. Dionne

  People, Drones, Needs

  "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

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• DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.

  Darren Hardy

  Dna, Overalls, Turns

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• In fact, [Gene Wilder] had made a hysteric seem considerably less funny in his film debut as a terrified undertaker in "Bonnie And Clyde." And neurotics soon became his stock-in-trade, whether he was playing the weird title character in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory..."

  Gene Wilder

  Character, Chocolate, Titles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Happiness, Good Luck, Choices

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• Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

  Gene Wilder

  Character, Delight, Calm

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do."

  Judd Apatow

  Smart, Chicago, Remember

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people through a camera or on a stage. I just can do it. I just have an intuitive sense of it. So I love doing that, I love going into that trance.

  Wayne White

  People, Cameras, Want

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• I believe that the Belgians do possess some surrealistic gene.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Believe, I Believe, Belgians

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Survival, Machines, Body

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• My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.

  Johnny Griffin

  Kings, Party, Kids

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