I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

quote by Aaron Neville
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Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes

Conquest, it's a type of quest
They called it a conquest of the planet of the apes
Conquest, they played it at request
It was another type of quest
For the planet of the apes
Conquest!
Request!
We're gonna have an inquest
But this is a type of quest
For the planet of the apes
Yeah!

song performed by They Might Be Giants
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My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

quote by Gene Tunney
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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

quote by John Updike
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Pedro....

the seven year old
orangutan
takes the grape from
the fat woman's lips
barely 18,

perhaps her wish
is to see Pedro turn
into a real man
so he can have her
for dinner.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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A girl apes her neighbor's frowning.

Chinese proverbs
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You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.

African proverbs
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We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

quote by Laurence Olivier
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An old ape hath an old eye.

Latin proverbs
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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Cunning is the ape of wisdom.

American proverbs
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Two Shows

The showman (blessing in a thousand shapes!)
Parades a 'School of Educated Apes!'
Small education's needed, I opine,
Or native wit, to make a monkey shine;
The brute exhibited has naught to do
But ape the larger apes who come to view
The hoodlum with his horrible grimace,
Long upper lip and furtive, shuffling pace,
Significant reminders of the time
When hunters, not policemen, made him climb;
The lady loafer with her draggling 'trail,'
That free translation of an ancient tail;
The sand-lot quadrumane in hairy suit,
Whose heels are thumbs perverted by the boot;
The painted actress throwing down the gage
To elder artists of the sylvan stage,
Proving that in the time of Noah's flood
Two ape-skins held her whole profession's blood;
The critic waiting, like a hungry pup,
To write the school-perhaps to eat it-up,

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poem by Ambrose Bierce
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

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I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.

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There was an Old Man of the Cape,
Who possessed a large Barbary ape,
Till the ape one dark night
Set the house all alight,
Which burned that Old Man of the Cape.

limerick by Edward Lear
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Thank God

god, thanks for your love
i am not that cat
that so clumsily runs
across the road
without knowing danger
is around
or that rat that eats
from a trap
though it's so obviously a trap
or that chick
that so cheerfully picks rice
from the master's hand
without knowing
that is for it to grow big
to whet his own appetite
god, thanks for your love
for sharing with us
that minute portion
of your infinite intelligence
giving us a head over our shoulders

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poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Etymology

Human being
ape
crab
fish
ocean
from God?

poem by Vince Gullaci
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Young cats will mouse, young apes will louse.

Dutch proverbs
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Em 1

i am within your confines
arms, your arms around my

body, my arms around your
body too

sort of tight, too tight,
not comfort but shockingly

tight, that both of us
want to be free, or we

die, in the tightness of the
arms and the mandates of

the law, mockingly tight
irreversibly choking us

this tight, rope like and
apelike, not homelike anymore.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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