"You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can."
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"But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey."
"I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child."
"Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting."
"We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything."
"I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them."
"It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it."
"Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt."
"People love that monkey torture."
"Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey."
"I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed."
"I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain."
"I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey."
"Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?"