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• I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and will continue to be, portraits. This is not only true, it is also necessary. We are not solitary mammals, like the elephant, the whale and the ape. What is most profoundly felt between us, even if hidden, will reappear in our portraits of one another.

  Ben Maddow

  Taken, Whales, Elephants

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• When you start to do research into gorillas or any kind of apes, if you're going to play them, that's one of the biggest misconceptions. And when I did Kong, you're not doing gorilla movements, you're not doing ape movements, you're looking for a personality. It's like saying okay I'm going to do human movements.

  Andy Serkis

  Play, Personality, Research

  Source: collider.com

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• Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.

  Miles Davis

  Nice, Mean, Men

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• I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.

  Jon Stewart

  Mean, Chaos, Controlled

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• Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, Tyrants, Brain

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Speak, Found, Humans

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.293, Penguin

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• Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.

  Claudine Andre

  Unique, Males, Bonobos

  "Bonobos: What we can learn from our primate cousin". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Men, Thinking, People

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• The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one thing we have more of than other apes... and let's secure their future.

  Richard Leakey

  Mind, Problem, Strategy

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• It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

  Simon Critchley

  Hands, Killers, Longing

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• Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

  Ian Caldwell

  Men, Perfection, Long

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Creating, Psychology

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we are still apes. A part of our brain is still a paleo-brain and many of the reactions come from our fight or flight instinct. As long as this part of the brain can take over control the rational part of the brain (we will face these problems).

  Jean-Marie Lehn

  Fighting, Long, Brain

  Source: www.lindau-nobel.org

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• I actually liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I remember just watching it and being pleasantly surprised with that movie. I didn't think it would be as good as it was, so I love that movie.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Thinking, Would Be, Remember

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• I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops - he's full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man's world. Not just to make money, because then you don't have anything. You don't have as much money as whoever you're trying to ape; that's making money by being commercial. Then you don't have anything to give the world; so you're not important. You might as well be dead.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Men, White Man

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• People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, People, Stills

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

  Gregory Keyes

  Saws, Obsessed, Planets

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• I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

  Abraham Maslow

  Men, Missing, Links

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

  Gregory Keyes

  Degrees, Anthropology

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• I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote some lines that they ended up... not using. ... I wrote one line. I thought it would've been perfect. I don't know if anyone saw the movie. It's the scene where the ape general comes in. And they're trying to decide if they should attack right there, or wait until a little later. And I wrote: "Man these bananas are good!" But they didn't use it. I did all of that research.

  Brian Regan

  Funny, Writing, Men

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• There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

  William Winwood Reade

  Father, Believe, Angel

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.395

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• Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

  James Lee

  Squirrels, Turtles, Sharks

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• But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.

  Pierre Boulle

  Book, Writing, Men

  Pierre Boulle (1963). “Planet of the Apes”

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• It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we evolved and how far we got away from the apes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Important, Important Things

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• In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

  Olivia Colman

  Girl, School, Laughing

  "How Olivia Colman, star of Peep Show and The Iron Lady, made the big time". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

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