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Circus Performer Inspirational Quotes (708)

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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. Fields
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In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.
Penn Jillette
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I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.
Penn Jillette
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I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
Nik Wallenda
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.
P. T. Barnum
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For an acrobat, the acting concepts of 'risk', 'a life or death situation' and 'trusting your partner' are visceral. If an actor loses focus, the scene dies if an acrobat loses focus, their partner might die.
Jeff Raz
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Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.
Penn Jillette
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We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
Penn Jillette
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Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
Red Skelton
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I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.
W. C. Fields
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I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.
Burt Lancaster
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If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.
Penn Jillette
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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
Penn Jillette
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
P. T. Barnum
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Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we all knew in those days, nor as straight either. But Bill was cool, and the men who he went up against were rattled, I guess. Bill beat them to it. He made up his mind to kill the other man before the other man had finished thinking.
Buffalo Bill
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'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
Penn Jillette
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
Buffalo Bill
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Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
Red Skelton
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I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
Buffalo Bill
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Hip hop dancing is more like choreography and it's more made up and you have to learn it. This, this Krump and Clowning you can't learn, it's just in you, the music moves you, you know. It's raw and organic, you know, it's like whatever comes out of you, you make it up tempo with the rhythm, you know, and it just comes out.
Tommy the Clown
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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.
Penn Jillette
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On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.
Philippe Petit
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With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.
Patrick Dempsey
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There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
Penn Jillette
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