The Genes Quotes

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

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

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

I believe that the Belgians do possess some surrealistic gene.

I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.

I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets.

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so.

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where interactions with the environment are key.

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

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.

If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.

I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

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

We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.

Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.

Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

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

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight.

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

With skin, I really believe it has a lot to do with your genes. And I've been really lucky.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

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

Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

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’

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations