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• I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

  Emily Procter

  Taken, Self, Blonde

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• I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

  Prince Royce

  Girl, School, Class

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.

  Billy Crystal

  Football, School, Games

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• He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall
  have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
  target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
  end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
  lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind
  freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Humorous, Men

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere”, p.122

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• I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

  Jason Wiles

  Book, Character, Cities

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• Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Sick, Realization

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

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• Time for a new business model for the 21st century. For starters, retire that outdated and creepy clown. You can be a true leader by stop exploiting children. I guarantee the millennials market you’re after will reward you for it. I know the public health world will applaud you, starting with myself.

  Michele Simon

  Children, Leader, Creepy

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats

  Big L

  Giving Up, Crazy, Book

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• Back in my day in the WWF oh.. the WW EEEEE, we had it all. We had Garbage men, we had clowns, we had them all. But we had one thing that was real, and that was me

  Shawn Michaels

  Real, Men, Garbage

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• The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

  Heath Ledger

  Zero, Thinking, Night

  "In Stetson or Wig, He’s Hard to Pin Down". Interview with Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. November 4, 2007.

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• Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.

  Edward Hopper

  Girl, Queens, Two

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• The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

  John Baldessari

  Ideas, Vaudeville, Flaws

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 09, 2013.

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• I just always had a penchant for performing for people.I'm a jackass clown.

  Nick Offerman

  People, Performing, Jackasses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

  Guillermo Diaz

  Laughter, School, Yearbook

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• We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

  Nicolas Cage

  Stars, Complaining, Circus

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• At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

  David Harewood

  Teacher, School, Naughty

  "Portrait of the artist: David Harewood, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2010.

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• Twitter is basically text messaging. Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, "Hey, look, a guy in a clown suit just threw up!" And I don't have 400-800 words to say about that, I just wanted to say that one thing.

  Chris Hardwick

  Guy, Looks, Hey

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• What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Bankers, May

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.26, David M Gross

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• I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.

  Jack Black

  Class, People, Trying

  "Jack Black's dramatic turn". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Writing, Shining, Decision

  Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled Beaches: Selected Columns”, p.93, Vintage

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• Obama is a clown. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the President doesn't know what he's talking about when he says fossil fuels are the energy of the past. We have more oil than we need. We'll never run out of it. It's all we've got.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Stupid, Past

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• I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Smart, Kids

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• I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Class, Feet, Childhood

  Interview with John DeBellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Artist, Civilization, Ends

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1980). “The End of Christendom”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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