Circus Quotes - Page 13

• The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

  Ian Astbury

  Party, Dimes, Nonsense

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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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

  Gymnastics, Fire, Community

  Source: www.elle.com

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• That's a Roman concept where the government can do anything, as long as you give the people "bread and circuses." And I'd say this culture right now is similar, as long as people have money, fun, and food, our government can do heinous, heinous things.

  Ian MacKaye

  Fun, Thinking, Government

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful in a society.They've always been useful as a way of critiquing power. The carnivalesque has always been useful as a way of the powerful being mocked in a public space.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Powerful, Space, Way

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.

  Francis Lawrence

  Animal, Light, Missing

  "Reese Witherspoon and Director Francis Lawrence Interview Water for Elephants". Press Conference, collider.com. April 19, 2011.

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• By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

  William Herschel

  Moon, Towns, May

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• For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

  Denis Lavant

  Long, Clown, Long Time

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• I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.

  Norman Rockwell

  Baseball, Mother, Kids

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• If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

  Luis Figo

  Winning, Important, Chance

  "Figo slams 'galactico circus' at Real Madrid" by Sid Lowe, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 30, 2006.

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• Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it

  Danielle Trussoni

  Night, Escaping, Years

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• Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

  O. Henry

  Golf, Moon, Pie

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.681, Delphi Classics

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• I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

  Jason Reitman

  Insane, Environment, Grew Up

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• I'm very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short.

  Drew Storen

  Want, Ends, Come Up

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• When people do something extraordinarily well, it's self-evident. It could be art. It could be a circus, whatever it is, where people are doing incredible things. It's self-evident. You know that it's beautiful. You know that it's very difficult, but it looks easy.

  Gabe Polsky

  Beautiful, Art, Self

  Source: collider.com

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• I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Baby, Children, Real

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side.

  Sidney Lanier

  Mystery Of Death, Sides, Riders

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• My father used to describe how he'd love going, early in the morning, out on a location and waiting for the trucks to arrive and the circus to come to town. That's what it's like, every day, when you're making a film. It's the magic.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Morning, Father, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Mother, Together, Chill

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• The circus goes from town to town, so why run away to join it? It should be, I've decided to wait for the circus to come.

  Dana Gould

  Running, Waiting, Towns

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• Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or circuses, by war or schooling, by armies and police, all of which are enabled and empowered by technology. That is what we might call the stick part of capitalism, while the riches-for-the-few is the carrot.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  War, Army, Technology

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I can't believe that Hillary Clinton wants the world to think that whenever she gets into political trouble, she's going to have her husband come roaring about, breaking furniture, sucking up oxygen, spewing carbon dioxide. My impression is that she's strong enough to defend herself - she certainly showed that in the recent Democratic debate. But apparently she's not strong enough to control Mr. Bill. And if that's the case, any sane voter would have to think twice before enabling this sort of circus act in the White House.

  Joe Klein

  Strong, Husband, Believe

  "Klein: A 'circus act in the White House'?" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.

  Alfred Gough

  Next Week, Three, Television

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Festivals are always fun. I went to a lot when I was younger and had money to go to them. I like playing at festivals. They're always kind of like a big, crazy circus.

  Courtney Barnett

  Fun, Crazy, Festivals

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false.

  Ted Cruz

  Dancing, Laughing, Bears

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.

  Dylan Moran

  Political, Earth, Waste

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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