"I was about 12 years old and I……" — Nick Cave
"I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me."
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160 Quotes by Nick Cave
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female…
— Brandon Boyd
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like…
— William Shakespeare
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
— Carl Linnaeus
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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the…
— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he…
— William Ralph Inge
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A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and…
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