A Quote by Caldwell Esselstyn

Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Caldwell Esselstyn

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Genetics Gun Lifestyle Loads Trigger

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Caldwell Esselstyn
American - Surgeon
Born: December 12, 1933

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

Francis Collins

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Mehmet Oz

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Don Marquis

If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do have to sell it. Otherwise, it takes the viewer out of the moment.

Gregory Nicotero

Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.

Sammy Gravano

Pull my trigger, I get bigger, then I'm lots of fun. I'm your gun, I'm your gun, gun, gun.

Alice Cooper

A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.

Alan Gottlieb

Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

Susanna Kaysen

This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.

Jim Goldberg

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

Jean Genet

One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.

Joseph Brodsky

I tried to eat better too, but when you're on tour you literally just eat some hideous pork pie on the motorway on the way to a show. It's a really unhealthy lifestyle: you're up late, drinking loads of coffee to stay awake, drinking loads of alcohol because you're socialising with people.