I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin th...
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.
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.
RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.
Dean Andrews: You as crazy as your mama. Goes to show it's in the genes.
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.
There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.
