Gorillas Quotes - Page 4

• I want a girl who looks good when she wakes up in the morning. We could take her face and dip it in dough and she'll make some nice-face cookies. Some girls wake up, man, you could put their face in dough and you'll get a gorilla cookie, for real!

  Flavor Flav

  Girl, Morning, Real

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• Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.

  Ziya Tong

  Lice, May, Nests

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• "You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."

  Edwin Diamond

  Media, Cities, Tree

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• Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] on a real chimpanzee and I worked with Terry [Notary] on a lot of chimpanzee movement.

  Andy Serkis

  Kings, Real, Captivity

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.

  Jane Lynch

  Parking, I Realized, Just One

  "Surprise! Tom Arnold 'Roasts' Roseanne Barr" by Brett Malec, www.today.com. August 6, 2012.

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• I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.

  Arne Glimcher

  Differences, Psychology, Taught

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Self, Indulge In, Ties

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• I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.

  Daniel Jacobs

  Fun, People, Boxing

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• Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.

  Charles Mingus

  God, Men, Thinking

  "Charles Mingus: More Than A Fake Book". Book by Andrew Homzy, November 1, 1991.

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• Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.

  Joe Biden

  Tables, Rooms, Social

  "Meet the Candidates" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 29, 2007.

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• ... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of those gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce. - Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Fashion, Unique, Talking

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• I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humanity, No Patience, I Have No Patience

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• The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the zoo, or by threats to endangered species; but developments in farming techniques that deprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Zoos, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

  Edward Abbey

  Football, Player, Games

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

  Jeff Goodell

  Coal, Rooms, Global Warming

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• I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.

  Tom Waits

  Meaningful, Song, Kind

  "Off beat". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

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• Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'

  John McCain

  Doctors, Trying, Apes

  "McCain Ape Rape Joke Recalled By Sources" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2008.

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• It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Plato, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

  Bill Vaughan

  Other Cultures, Way, Pounds

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• Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fire, Worry, Computer

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• Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.

  Andy Serkis

  Tourism, Income, Economy

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• I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before I could believe a guy would put on long tights and bat ears and go and fight crime. Like, the fantasy never made sense to me, on a basic level.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  New York, Hate, Believe

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

  Paul Mooney

  Animal, May, Circus

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than the differences... be the differences between the hand and foot of Man and those of the Gorilla what they may the differences between those of the Gorilla and those of the lower Apes are much greater.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Hands, Differences

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 110, 1863.

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• I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fire, Organization, Worry

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