Genes Quotes - Page 9

• The differences between Indigenous and not Indigenous Australians can be easily attributed not to differences in their genes but to differences in the conditions in which they're born, grow, live, work and age - in other words, to the social determinants of health.

  Michael Marmot

  Differences, Age, Social

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• Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Aging, Imagine, Slow Down

  "How Do You Make An Elderly Worm Feel Young Again?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 22, 2015.

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• I'm a big fan of Kiss. Gene Simmons, he's all into marketing and branding. You name it, there's some type of product with Kiss' name on it. Studying people like that, you see guys have hooks and there are reasons people are successful.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Successful, Kissing, Names

  "Comedian Gabriel Iglesias Talks 'Stand-Up Revolution' Season 3: 'Fluffy' Dishes On His Role In 'Magic Mike 2' & Branding Himself Like Gene Simmons, Larry The Cable Guy & Dane Cook". Interview with Kyle Dowling, mstarsnews.musictimes.com. October 2, 2014.

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• You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Thinking, Mutation, Needs

  "Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.

  Michio Kaku

  Mean, Errors, Cells

  "'Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics'". Interview with Philip Bethge and Rafaela von Bredow, www.spiegel.de. September 28, 2012.

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• every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sibling, Past, Envy

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• My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

  Warren Buffett

  America, Lucky, Wealth

  "The Giving Pledge". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 28, 2010.

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• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Hands

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• I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

  Mick Jagger

  Saws, Wells, I Can

  "Jagger Remembers: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.mickjagger.com. December 14, 1995.

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• Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

  Paul Auster

  Memories, Men, Mirrors

  Paul Auster (2007). “The Invention of Solitude”, p.148, Penguin

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• I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.

  Cris Judd

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• Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Teacher, Rain, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a performer. Like Hugh [Grant] said earlier, we might all have this weird gene. Hopefully I will continue to have the talent to allow that gene to play itself out for as long as it can.

  Mandy Moore

  Play, Long, Actors

  Source: movieweb.com

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• People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

  Wole Soyinka

  Believe, Garden, Views

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.

  Jamie Foxx

  Thinking, Drawing, People

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

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• Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Cancer, Mean

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• [Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, it really is a kind of reproduction, which antinatalism should, theoretically, oppose, or at least which I feel that it opposes emotionally in my own experience.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Writing, Ideas, Kind

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.

  Jay McInerney

  Vices, Lucky, Pleasure

  " Jay McInerney: 'I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices'" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides, biology with Frankenfood and designer-gene superbabies. But astronomers are like responsible ecotourists, squinting at the scenery through high-quality optical devices, taking nothing but images that may be computer-enhanced for public distribution, leaving nothing but a few Land Rover footprints on faraway Martian soil, and OK, OK, maybe the Land Rover, too.

  Natalie Angier

  Science, Land, Squinting

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• Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Determinism, Vulnerability

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Interesting, Regulation, Environment

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

  James D. Watson

  Wings, Evil, Want

  "James Watson: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. October 19, 2007.

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• I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Kind, Found, Fosse

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recognizably the same genes. You could carry on right on down to humans and bacteria, and you will find continuous compelling evidence for the hierarchical tree of cousinship.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cousin, Tree, Monkeys

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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