Quotes tagged ‘Genetics’

“John: Face it, you're just like me. You judge. You hunt. Malcolm: I bring criminals to justice. I protect my community and my family. John: Of course you share your father's strengths, but you also share his weakness. John: What's that? His sadistic megalomania with a dash of god complex? John: Your…”

— Sam Sklaver, Malcolm Bright, Tom Payne, imdb.com

“I’ve been trying to be more attractive, but it’s just so hard, you know, because of my genetics.”

— Thomas Ward, Hannah Gadsby, Liz Doran, Josh Thomas, Josh, Josh Thomas, imdb.com

“Oscar Martinez: Don't you want to see the baby? Dwight Schrute: Psh! Why? I know what Angela and the senator look like. I can mash that up in my head right now.”

— Aaron Shure, Dwight Schrute, Rainn Wilson, imdb.com

“Peter Bishop: Let me ask you something. My father — not my favorite — he is without a doubt the most self-absorbed, twisted, abusive, brilliant, myopic son of a bitch on the planet. So, he was a chemist. That much I already know. He worked out of a basement lab in Harvard, doing research for a tooth…”

— Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, J.J. Abrams, Peter Bishop, Joshua Jackson, imdb.com

“Genetics or environment? Like in everything else, society searches for the magic bullet-- the easy answer, 'cause the more complex the answer is, the more terrified we become. Is the root of violence much deeper, much darker? How about pure evil? Maybe we human creatures are inherently evil. Maybe e…”

— Tom Fontana, Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau, imdb.com

“The theory of assortative mating suggests we benefit from our tendency to select life partners with an eye for certain genetic traits.”

— Brittany Wong, huffpost.com

“Great kids come from great fucks.”

— David Hollander, Mickey Donovan, Jon Voight, imdb.com

“Boy, a little too much chlorine in that gene pool.”

— Peter Mehlman, Carol Leifer, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“We're genetically identical. Science says we'd stay in one place.”

— Aaron Sorkin, imdb.com

“The genome— a term coined in 1920 by the German botanist Hans Winkler and probably intended as a portmanteau of gene and chromosome— refers to the entire set of genetic instructions found inside a cell. Mostly identical from cell to cell within any given organism save for the occasional mutation, th…”

— Samuel H. Sternberg, Jennifer Doudna, amazon.com

“I'm not my dad. You hear me? I'm not my fucking dad!”

— Sheila Callaghan, Phillip 'Lip' Gallagher, Jeremy Allen White, imdb.com

“It's easy to romanticize the people in our lives that mean something to us. We elevate them onto a higher plane that the rest of humanity. They appear glorious and pristine and full of wonders of the Universe all wrapped up into one person-sized box waiting to be unpacked. It's easy to forget, when…”

— August Clearwing, amazon.com