147 Quotes About Zoos

  • Author Jeremy Clarkson
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    Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.

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  • Author Michael Chabon
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    Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

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  • Author Stephen Colbert
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    In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say "congratulations.

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  • Author Winston Churchill
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    A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

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  • Author Angela Davis
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    Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

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  • Author Bob Dole
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    If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

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  • Author Irene Dunne
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    There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

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