Jonathan Katz Quotes
Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
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There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
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Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.
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Nutrition trumps genes.
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I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
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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.
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I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.
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I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.
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It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.
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Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.
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Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.
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You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.
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I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.
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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.
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Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
