The Genes Quotes

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

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.

We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!

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

How you eat tells your genes what type of body you want to have later.

Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.

It's in our genes, we were built to wander.

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.

We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.

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.

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

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

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.

Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

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.

How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

I didn't get the charm gene.

You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.

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

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

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

The environment can actually affect gene expression.

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front.

So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.

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.

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

Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near our DNA and uses some of the molecular machinery to copy itself.

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.

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

I was a huge Della Reese fan, when Della Reese was on. I idolized all the panelists. I was in love with Kitty Carlisle. Nipsey Russell, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Gene Rayburn.

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.

If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.