Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town"
Monkeys quotes
Monkeys
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Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey..."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are."
Matsuo Basho
Poet
"Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey"
Dennis McKenna
Ethnopharmacologist
"You monkeys only think you're running things."
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"What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey."
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"Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?"
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"Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey."
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"Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for."
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"We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components."
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"I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents."
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"Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey."
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"I've never said flange to a monkey!"
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"A monkey could drive this train."
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"Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys."
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"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
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"It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous."
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"We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys."
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"Working with any actor is like working with a monkey."
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"One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues."
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"We are all just monkeys with money and guns."
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"I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals...I would call me more of a monkey."
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"I'm such a dude. I'm just like, 'All right, I have to get up in my monkey suit.' I'd rather be in jeans."
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"It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes."
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"I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water."
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