Genes Quotes - Page 23

• Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Selfish, Language, Theory

  Source: libcom.org

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• I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

  Lorna Luft

  Magic, Hollywood, Evening

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Stars, Memories

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

  Jon Krakauer

  Opportunity, Dust, Hands

  Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor

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• An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Animal, Spirit

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• I could never be Charlie Chaplin. But the films that were made by people like him, or Gene Wilder, or John Candy, the people that inspired me so much were the people that were able to combine humor with heartbreak so beautifully and fluidly. Those films I think were what inspired me to want to come to L.A. and audition for movies.

  Emma Stone

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Understanding, Brain, Important

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever. So I don't know how that got in my gene pool, but it did.

  Dan Amboyer

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

  Helen Dunmore

  Powerful, Stories, Longing

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• A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior, but it also has a set of changes in the genes or in the molecules that modify gene behavior that allows us to categorize cancers in ways that is very useful in thinking about new ways to control cancer by prevention and treatment.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Cancer, Thinking, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

  Matt Ridley

  Selfish, Mind, Evolution

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• My parents took me to that I think is just one of those near-perfect comedies is Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, they're at the height of their game. The two of them working together was amazing. Yeah, just a terrific story. You get emotionally involved. Jokes all the time, jokes that come from story. Like, they don't have to go wildly out of their way to make the jokes. It's a parody of Frankenstein movies, but also it stands as one of the great ones, one of the great Frankenstein movies.

  Doug Benson

  Thinking, Two, Games

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was immediately into all the great movie comedians - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder. Everything those guys had anything to do with, from I don't know how young. Super young.

  Doug Benson

  Guy, Comedian, Woody

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Rebel, Machines

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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• Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability. ...they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• I'm originally from Tampa and grew up on beach. I'm also naturally fair-skinned. The funny thing is, my parents are both pretty tan, but for some reason I didn't get those genes.

  Brittany Snow

  Beach, Funny Things, Parent

  "The Genius Way Brittany Snow Gets Tan Without Going in the Sun (and No, Not With Self-Tanner)". Interview with Julianne Carell, www.glamour.com. June 8, 2016.

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• Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

  Adam Schiff

  Stars, Role Models, Honor

  "Senator proposes highway to honor Gene Autry". www.cnn.com. January 28, 1999.

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• I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

  Allen West

  Pool, Bumper Sticker, Threat

  "Top 10 Allen West lines" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.

  Pamela Anderson

  Dog, Kids, Giving

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• I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mother, Father, Bird

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• I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

  Kate Walsh

  Lucky, Good Genes

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

  Josh Brolin

  Dad, Lucky, Given

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• Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Special, Amplify

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.407, Penguin

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• Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth.

  Myles Munroe

  Makeup, Rulership, Earth

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• Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.

  Peter Drucker

  Discipline, Magic, Mysterious

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