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Circus Performer Inspirational Quotes (708)

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I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didn’t believe that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that.
Penn Jillette
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It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
Buffalo Bill
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The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
Wavy Gravy
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I'm an amazing mama's boy.
Penn Jillette
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To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.
Cary Grant
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We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.
Burt Lancaster
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If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
Penn Jillette
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Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.
Penn Jillette
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler
Patrick Dempsey
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Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.
Penn Jillette
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields
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There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.
Wavy Gravy
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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
Penn Jillette
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It takes about 6 hours of practice a day for quite a few years to become a professional juggler. I started when I was 14 and that discipline has helped me immensely as a performer.
Jeff Raz
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There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.
Nik Wallenda
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I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
W. C. Fields
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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
Buffalo Bill
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields
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The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.
Buffalo Bill
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
W. C. Fields
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I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.
Red Skelton
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
Burt Lancaster
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Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!
W. C. Fields
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
P. T. Barnum
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