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Virtue is not hereditary.
Hereditary sloth instructs me.
My love of singing is hereditary.
In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.
Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.
I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.
With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life.
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.
If I'm 'the kid from 'Hereditary'' for the rest of my life, I'll be satisfied.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
By God's grace, the only property my parents gave me was a good body. No BP, no sugar, no hereditary problems. Small build, tight skin.
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.
Red lipstick is my armour - I feel it distracts from my hereditary dark circles and gives me an instant psychological lift, no matter what my mood is.
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.
Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.
I got my MFA from AFI as a director in 2010. I've had time to make the shorts that I made previous to 'Hereditary' and to kind of build these movies in my head.
One thing that's likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than their real age. And people have mistaken me for 30, even 25.
I can say that I put a lot of personal feelings into 'Hereditary', though I can also say that none of the characters in the film are surrogates for anybody in my family or for myself.
It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.
I don't eat pork or beef. I cut that out when my father passed away about 20 years ago. I wanted to modify my diet because he passed away from diabetes. And, you know, it's very hereditary.
I repeat for the umpteenth time, without making apologies: My children have had more than their fair share of presidency under their father. There cannot be any hereditary transfer of power.
I don't sleep much. I think it's hereditary. My mom doesn't sleep. My dad never slept. My naps are definitely when I get the most sleep. I'm a big napper - that's when I get most of my sleep.
In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.
Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.
Yesh Atid is a Jewish, religious-secular party. Our DNA is center - both Left and Right. The difference between center-left and center-right is more emotional and hereditary than having to do with what people think about the Palestinians.
Every single moment in 'Hereditary' is linked to a moment in the end for the payoff. I think it has the ability of captivating people the same way that 'Manchester By the Sea' did. It has that audience because it's so wrapped in human drama.
The Honours List is accused of being too top heavy, rewarding those born with a silver spoon in their mouth - as if hereditary titles and accidents of birth are incompatible with democracy. But if you stop to think about it, what is more democratic than nature?
When I originally auditioned for 'Hereditary,' I didn't think I'd get it because everyone there was, like, three years younger than me and had red hair - it was a very odd thing. When I ended up getting it, I was really excited because it was on my bucket list to be in a horror film.
'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it was important for me that the film functioned first as a family drama. I know that I'm never affected by anything if I'm not invested in the people to whom the genre things are happening.
I know that I put a lot into 'Hereditary', and I'm proud of what it is. Beyond the fact that the film takes its time and asks for a certain amount of patience from the audience - and I hope it rewards that patience by the end - I know that I'm something of an aesthete. I care about aesthetics, and I love filmmaking.