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• You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Jumping, Numbers, Literature

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• God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.

  Billy Sunday

  People, Littles, Likes

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• If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Army

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

  Scott Ritter

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Doe

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• People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

  Christopher Meloni

  Dog, Vegas, Blue

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• With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

  Curt Weldon

  New York, Media, Cnn

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• My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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

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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.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Girl, Care, Singers

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

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• As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

  Rachel Weisz

  Hurt, Children, Tree

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• In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

  Jack Irons

  Musician, Jam, Pearls

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• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

  Robert Hughes

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

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• Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

  Wangari Maathai

  Doubt, Hiv, Aids

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• God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.

  Margot Kidder

  News, Want, Rooms

  "No kidding". Interview with Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Science, Fiction, Stories

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• Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Paws, Too Much

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• he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Men, Jumping, Tree

  "Lincoln Steffens speakLincoln Steffens speakinging".

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• You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening... I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

  Morarji Desai

  Life, Believe, Numbers

  Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.

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• The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

  William Henry Hudson

  Animal, Existence, Exception

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W.H. Hudson”

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• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Art, Majority Rule

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

  Brenda Ueland

  Fitness, Running, Nuts

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

  Eric Thomas

  Procrastination, Doors, Opening

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• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

  Paris Hilton

  Baby, Home, Sleep

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• I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

  Robin Williams

  Zoos, Complaining, Gone

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• Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Speech, Should, Refrain

  'The Golden Age' (1895) 'Lusisti Satis'

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• I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Pet, Charlie

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