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Monkey Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll confess that, from an early age, I was a huge fan of President Reagan because my parents bought me an enormous stuffed monkey that they named President Reagan - yes, I get it now.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a brand type guy and we want to make sure that 'Gas Monkey' is out there in every arena that we can be. I'm also never short on ideas and I usually try to get them out there at all times.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went dead broke - twice! - trying to get Gas Monkey up and going. And when I say broke, I mean sleeping on my sister's couch and can't pay-the-rent type broke.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes.' I'm the tiny little monkey in the background. I met Rick Baker doing that - then, because of my size and the fact I was older than 18, he figured I could double Daveigh Chase in 'The Ring.'
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles and some kind of oxygen chamber, and he used to be black, but he made himself white, and he was nuts. That was Michael Jackson in full. Wacko Jacko.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, some things, like, I just don't want to know what they are before I eat them. Like, if you're going to start feeding me, like, sexual organs of animals, or, like, a monkey's brain or something - I'll eat it. Just don't tell me what it is until after I've finished it.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.
- Concerted Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent filmmaker in my own right some day.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.
- Domains
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.
- Insult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fans insult me and call me 'monkey.' At first, I was quite shocked, but now I do not give it importance.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
- Getting Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You play with the audience, and they play back with you. They get into it, and then everybody gets into it. I don't want to be like a monkey on stage and just go through the motions because then it wouldn't be fun anymore. I just pay attention to the audience and appreciate the fact that somebody wants to see us. That gets me psyched.
- Nov 07, 2020
You never monkey with the truth.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can do a really loud monkey call. I can put both my legs behind my back. And I can stick my fist in my mouth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.
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- Nov 07, 2020