Brother Ali (Ali Douglas Newman) Quotes

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

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• There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • May
  • Genes
  • Schizophrenia

• We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Long
  • Blind
  • Cells

• We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Human
  • Human being
  • Genes

• I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Andy Grove
  • People
  • Growth
  • Management

• Nutrition trumps genes.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Trump
  • Genes
  • Nutrition

• 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.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • People
  • Way
  • Dad

• I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Blind

• It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Mother
  • Genes
  • Opera singer

• In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.

  

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
  • Differences
  • Mathematics
  • Genes

• 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.

  

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Mother
  • Acting
  • Theatre

• Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

  

  Jonathan Katz
  • Genes
  • Hiding
  • Shyness

• If you asked me what caused aging, I would say free radicals and molecules, which spontaneously shift and form and cause damage in all our cells and genes. The body usually repairs and replaces the damage in these genes. But as you get older, the aging clock turns down those defenses.

  

  Michael Fossel
  • Damage
  • Older
  • Genes

• More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Personality
  • Research
  • Genes

• We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might actually be grabbing these viruses, grabbing genetic material from the viruses that are infecting it and pulling them into their own genome.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Way
  • Might
  • Materials

• Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happy
  • Generation
  • Human Beings

• The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Modern
  • System
  • Absurdity

• I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

  

  Yuna
  • Family
  • Future
  • Start

• In today's environment, the audience expects to be more directly connected to news providers than it did historically and I think that's a good thing, ... We all felt strongly that letting people know that we are willing to engage in a healthy dialogue about what we do we think will enhance our reputation and give us a competitive advantage.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • People
  • Good
  • Today

• The processes of nature lie so deep, that, after all the pains we can take, much, perhaps, will remain undiscovered beyond the reach of human art or skill. But this is no reason why we should give ourselves up to the belief of fictions, be they ever so ingenious, instead of hearkening to the unerring voice of nature...

  

  Colin Maclaurin
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Processes

• That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Win

• I have a strong preference for being alive.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Strong
  • Alive
  • Preference

• My genes tie me to those that despised me.

  

  Brother Ali
  • Genes