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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

The responses of the baby monkey are very similar to those of a human baby.

Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom is a pretty risky, complex proposition that's not always for their benefit.

When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.