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Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry : [testing Lewis's assertion that the apes can speak] What is your name?
Dr. Zira : Zira.
Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry : One might as well be talking to a parrot.
Dr. Zira : A parrot?
Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry : What did I tell you? Mechanical mimicry. Unique in an ape, vocally, without a doubt, but... does the other one talk?
Cornelius : Only when she lets me.
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[as part of an intelligence test, Zira builds a stairway out of blocks to reach a hanging banana; and then after climbing the stairway, just sits beneath it staring]
Dr. Stephanie Branton : Well why doesn't she take it?
Dr. Zira : Because I loathe bananas!
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Dr. Zira : We are peaceful creatures. We are happy to be here. May we be unchained?
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Dr. Zira : A marriage bed is made for two. But every damn morning, it's the woman who has to make it. We have heads as well as hands. I call upon men to let us use them!