Genes Quotes - Page 5

• One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

  Mel Brooks

  One Day, Rabbits, Lambs

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• Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

  Dwight Schultz

  Creation, Courses

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• Your children's genes reflect only their potential, not their destiny. It is up to you to provide the environment that allows them to develop to their highest potential.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Children, Destiny, Up To You

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.226, Hay House, Inc

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• Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Men, Two

  A.C. Grayling (2010). “The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

  Gary Cole

  Teenage, Kids, Guy

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• I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I have some good genes, but lately Ive been feeling it. You know, after all these years it does catch up with you. But just for now.

  Regis Philbin

  Years, Work Out, Feelings

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• Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

  Marina Sirtis

  Believe, Judgment, Should

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• If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

  Andres Iniesta

  Fighting, Winning, Player

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

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• Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed at random through wild populations, and to follow the laws of chance in their distribution to offspring. In other words, they are an agency producing variation of the kind which Darwin postulated as the raw material on which selection acts.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Reality, Agency, Law

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• Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity.

  Bill Whittle

  Beautiful, Heart, Glasses

  "Trinity (part 2)". Post by Bill Whittle in blog ejectejecteject.com, July 4, 2003.

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• I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis

  Albert Lee

  Music, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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• No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

  James D. Watson

  Knowing, Add, May

  "Risky Genetic Fantasies". The Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2001.

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• And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

  Daniel Nathans

  Medical, Protein, Significance

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• She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

  Dean Koontz

  Kindness, Empathy, Weakness

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.471, Bantam

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• Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Expression, Brain, Fundamentals

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.112, Guilford Publications

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• Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers.

  Mitzi Gaynor

  Athlete, Men, Games

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

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• A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfishness, Would Be, Sitting

  Richard Dawkins (1989). “The Selfish Gene”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Criminals, Barbarians

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• i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.

  Craig Clevenger

  Beautiful, Mean, Self

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”

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• The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rest Of Life, Viruses, Planets

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• We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme increase by 40 per cent. We looked at their 23,000 genes and the self-healing genes were up regulated and all the genes related to heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases, diabetes, they all went down within five days.

  Deepak Chopra

  Cancer, Heart, Healing

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Steps, Walks

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.

  Manning Marable

  Party, Black, Nypd

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• To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

  Rupert Everett

  Brave, Soldier, Special

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• If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Path, Environment, Determine

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