Circus Quotes - Page 10

• A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.

  Savitri Devi

  Life, Pain, War

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• Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Team

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• Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

  Jenny Lawson

  Texas, Parent, Goes On

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• I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

  Naomi Judd

  Relationship, Firsts, Rodeo

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• I dont have a place that I call home at the moment because theres no point. I mean, Im a traveling circus for a while. Its weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, theres nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But Ive kind of gotten used to it.

  Idris Elba

  Home, Mean, Nowhere To Go

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• I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.

  Doris Day

  Dolls, Down And, Matter

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

  Buck Rodgers

  Courage, Long, Agility

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• Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Running

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• The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

  Julie Burchill

  Rose, Missing, Pockets

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

  Suzanne Collins

  Responsibility, People, Political

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.223, Scholastic Inc.

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• Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

  Neil Gaiman

  Loyalty, Elephants, Leader

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• So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if we intend to keep you an intimate dinner company." "I expected the corset unlacing would take place after dinner," Celia says mildly, earning a chorus of laughter. "We shall keep Miss Bowen as intimate company regardless of the state of her corset," Chandresh says. "Make a note of that," he adds, waving a hand at Marco. "Miss Bowen's corset is duly noted, sir," Marco replies, and the laghter bubbles over the table again.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Girl, Laughter, Eye

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• We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

  Carol J. Adams

  Zoos, Animal, Meat Eating

  Carol J. Adams (2015). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Taken, Way, Path

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

  Robert E. Howard

  Strong Women, Strong, Ifs

  Letter to Harold Preece, c. January or February 1928.

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• Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they do now, but perhaps less than they will someday, he draws a breath that releases the tangled knot of words in his heart, and they fall from his lips effortlessly. "The circus arrives without warning.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Fall, Heart, Tangled

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• Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

  Jean Rhys

  Wings, Eagles, Broken

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• I was born and raised in New York and I'm of an age where I want to just be home. But, you know, when you sign up to be an actor it's like joining the circus and the circus is not always going to be in your hometown.

  Dean Winters

  New York, Home, Age

  "Interview: ‘Battle Creek’ star Dean Winters on nearly killing Josh Duhamel and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Musical, Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Jesus

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• I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

  Al Lewis

  Years, Medicine, Radio

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• A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Car, Rooms, Tiny

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• You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Lonely, Real, Hug

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think because I'm 6'4" and have blond hair and I didn't dress like any other kind of a boy, people just immediately thought I was some kind of circus animal.

  Patrick Wolf

  Animal, Boys, Thinking

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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