"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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"Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!"
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"Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM."
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"f you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong."
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"I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan."
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"We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds."
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"My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today"
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"We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time."
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"Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses."
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"I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other."
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"Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers."
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"The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs."
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"I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both."
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"Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth."
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"It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well."
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"Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like."
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