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Circus Performer Inspirational Quotes (708)

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Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.
Philippe Petit
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
Buffalo Bill
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
P. T. Barnum
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If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
Penn Jillette
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I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
Philippe Petit
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Technology is run by sex, because it's very important to people, both technology and sex.
Penn Jillette
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
P. T. Barnum
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Dentists, lawyers, doctors are all a bunch of thieving bastards.
W. C. Fields
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
Buffalo Bill
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I walked out of class one day and I never went back
Burt Lancaster
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Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.
Neon Hitch
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. Barnum
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Whatever you do, do it ardently.
P. T. Barnum
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I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.
W. C. Fields
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One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style
Cary Grant
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After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.
Annie Oakley
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
Penn Jillette
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I like children. If they're properly cooked.
W. C. Fields
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The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.
Penn Jillette
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Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
W. C. Fields
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Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.
P. T. Barnum
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Alcoholic: anybody who drinks more than I do.
W. C. Fields
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I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
Red Skelton
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
Penn Jillette
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