Jeff Bezos
Entrepreneur
"E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being."
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Genes
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Stephen Covey
Author, Speaker
"Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment)."
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"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."
Walter Gilbert
Biochemist
"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal."
Allen West
Politician
"I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool."
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"I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me."
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"We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens."
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"I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was."
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"Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything."
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"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."
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"I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher."
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"So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes."
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"You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human."
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"Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language."
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