A Quote by Dennis Allen

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

Dennis Allen

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Dennis Allen
American - Coach
Born: September 22, 1972

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

Evan Esar

I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two systems of heredity enjoyed by man: endosomatic or internal heredity for the ordinary or genetical heredity we have in common with animals; and exosomatic or external heredity for the non-genetic heredity that is peculiarly our own - the heredity that is mediated through tradition, by which I mean the transfer of information through non-genetic channels from one generation to the next.

Peter Medawar

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Gloria Steinem

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Henri Matisse

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Gloria Steinem

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

Luther Burbank

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

John B. S. Haldane

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

Robert Breault

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

Tom Robbins

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

Al Goldstein

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

Francis Collins

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Bertrand Russell

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.