Genes Quotes - Page 7

• So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Practice, Personality

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

  Steven Pinker

  Brain, Patterns, Levers

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• When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

  Richard Dawkins

  Machines, Too Much, Emphasis

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• I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

  John Cleese

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2009.

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• The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

  Steven Pinker

  Brain, Mind, Bags

  "Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us?" by Mark Baard, www.wired.com. April 16, 2003.

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• I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

  Gene Simmons

  Dollars, Band, Care

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

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• My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Kids, Cities

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• You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Nuts, Example, Brazil

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• Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

  Eric Ries

  Mean, Taught, Process

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.3, Crown Business

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• My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

  John C. Reilly

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "John C. Reilly: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Efficiency, Inefficiency

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• I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Stress, Believe, Thinking

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• I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

  Jean Dujardin

  Smile, Dog, Mustache

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

  Terry Gross

  Kissing, Wife, Titles

  Source: keranews.org

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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

  Dna, Levels, Code

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

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• And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault." "It isn't?" "No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb." Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.

  Christine Feehan

  Should Have, Laughing, Would Be

  Christine Feehan (2006). “Conspiracy Game”, p.233, Penguin

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• How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)

  Lauren Weisberger

  Beautiful, Perfect, Soul

  Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, sheez, what’s Syd Vicious doing back in town? (Payne) How’d the testicle retrieval go, Payne? You still limping?...Thought so. I got the thank-you card from Planned Parenthood last week. Seems they want to honor me for saving the gene pool. (Syd)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Honor, Cards, Saving

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

  Daniel Dennett

  Opportunity, Enemy, Environmental

  Daniel C. Dennett (2004). “Freedom Evolves”, p.221, Penguin UK

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• Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

  Douglas Adams

  Mixing, Males, Generations

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• The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

  Tite Kubo

  Son, Copying, Facts

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• I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

  Dan Savage

  Dog, Gay, Men

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• If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us," I said. "Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters.

  James Patterson

  Baby, Jobs, Mean

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• Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

  Kamila Shamsie

  Mines, Could Have Been, Has Beens

  Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.32, A&C Black

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• Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature’s design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Mean, Successful, Order

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