Monkeys Quotes - Page 18

• I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Tunes, Complaining, Reason

  During a debate on the Suez crisis, 'Hansard' 16 May 1957, col. 680

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• I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

  Bob Dylan

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Song: I Shall Be Free--No. 10

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• You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Animal, Hell, Beats

  Song: Real Man, Album: Human Touch, 1992

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• I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

  Criss Angel

  Jobs, Fire, Snakes

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

  Elton John

  Family, Men, Care

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• My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

  Henry Adams

  Science, Technology, Energy

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.424, Harvard University Press

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• A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

  Tom T. Hall

  President, Firsts, Politics

  Song: The Monkey That Became President, Album: Storyteller Poet Philosopher

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• Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.

  Elizabeth Spelke

  Children, Boston, Years

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• Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

  Courtney Summers

  Moving, Cheerleader

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.34, Macmillan

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• In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

  Carl Sagan

  Men, Mozambique, Stories

  Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Learning

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

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• On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You'd be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem is, most monkey stories end tragically.

  David Sedaris

  People, Pet, Stories

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Eye, Practice, Meditation

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• Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.

  Doug Dorst

  Courses

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• On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

  Elton John

  Culture, Keith, Arthritis

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• I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Play, Defense

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• What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey business outside of the monkey business of making the movie. There's no ego bullshit, there's no wasted energy. It's all directed at the story and that's rare.

  Katherine Waterston

  Phoenix, Bullshit, Ego

  Source: collider.com

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• We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cost, Chatter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

  Sarah Monette

  Stories, Paws, Youth

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• Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Zoos, Animal, Rude

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• Charles Darwin got totally hammered, woke up next to a monkey and decided he had to come up with a theory to make it all okay.

  Stephen Colbert

  Next, Come Up, Theory

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• If you have that group of people who are both nice and also creative, then you have surprises like a room with monkeys in them. That has taken a very good scene and just made it a great scene. I want my movies to be visually interesting and to have a lot of energy and be colorful and full of life.

  Richard Shepard

  Nice, Taken, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• When enough electrons within an atom get aligned and a critical mass is reached - as soon as you hit that hundredth monkey, as soon as you hit the one - you have phase transition, and all the rest of the electrons automatically make the change. My mission - what I teach and what I believe in - is that you just get yourself aligned with God-consciousness. If we teach enough people to do it - if enough of us ultimately get there - then we'll start electing leaders with this kind of consciousness. We'll start seeing kinds of shifts taking their place.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, People, Leader

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• I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Would Be, Driving, Clear

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Everything you do, burns calories. Getting up in the morning, 100 calories; kicking the hooker out of your bed, another 100; diapering your monkey, 35 calories; laughing at a midget, fun and 10 calories; catching your girlfriend with another guy, 2000-3000 calories, depending on backswings.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Girlfriend, Morning

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