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Circus Performer Inspirational Quotes (708)

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My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.
Neon Hitch
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She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off
Red Skelton
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When I perform outside, the major problem that could arise is strong wind.I spend months preparing for the types of wind that occur in different locations.
Philippe Petit
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No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
P. T. Barnum
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Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.
Bob Keeshan
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Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.
Penn Jillette
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Ye Gads, no! I couldn't stand the noise.
W. C. Fields
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What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.
Nik Wallenda
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I never eat before breakfast.
W. C. Fields
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'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.
Penn Jillette
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A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
W. C. Fields
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I left home because I was hungry.
Red Skelton
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I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'
Wavy Gravy
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You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.
Burt Lancaster
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Congress: Bingo with billions.
Red Skelton
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My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.
Charles Atlas
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The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.
Penn Jillette
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
Buffalo Bill
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Yes I do like children ... Girl children...about eighteen or twenty.
W. C. Fields
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The fact is that violence gives you a rush.
Penn Jillette
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A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'
Penn Jillette
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
P. T. Barnum
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
Patrick Dempsey
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I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.
Cary Grant
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