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Circus Performer Inspirational Quotes (708)

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Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.
Burt Lancaster
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It's good to shut up sometimes.
Marcel Marceau
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Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
P. T. Barnum
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Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.
W. C. Fields
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Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.
Wavy Gravy
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Read everything and be kind.
Penn Jillette
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The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.
Penn Jillette
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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.
P. T. Barnum
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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
Penn Jillette
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious it'll make you bugnutty.
Penn Jillette
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The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.
Patrick Dempsey
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin
Wavy Gravy
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A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months. ' I said, 'How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?' He said, 'All of them. '
Red Skelton
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...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?
Cary Grant
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Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
Penn Jillette
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The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
Penn Jillette
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If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it.
W. C. Fields
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
P. T. Barnum
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The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.
W. C. Fields
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My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
Penn Jillette
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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
W. C. Fields
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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
P. T. Barnum
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So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.
W. C. Fields
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Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.
Red Skelton
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