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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.
No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.
We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.
I've been lucky: my Japanese genes - from my mother's side - and a lifelong moisturising routine have helped keep me looking good.
We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets.
I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others.
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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.
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 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.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas
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?
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.
I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.
I've got good genes, and my body just always seems to bounce back after my pregnancies.
You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
When you meet kin, there is an energy and sparkle between your bodies. It must be chemical somehow - DNA and genes.
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth.
I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.
No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
I have been blessed with good genes, and that's why, irrespective of how much I eat, I still retain my lean look.
Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.
RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.
My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was 60. I almost have to apologise for my genes.
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.
When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.
I've got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor - and he was good.
I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.
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.
Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.
We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.
When critics called me a duplicate of my father, I knew I can't do anything about my genes but I ensured that I shed the romantic image and create my individual style.
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.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to it.
Most groups patent ways of using genetic discoveries as part of non-obvious diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and slightly or greatly altered genes.
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
I have never been particularly picky when it comes to what I'm putting in my hair. Most of it is just the genes I'm so fortunate to have inherited from my parents.
With skin, I really believe it has a lot to do with your genes. And I've been really lucky.
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.
