Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town"
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Circus
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Richard Pryor
Comedian, Actor
"But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus."
Philip Green
Businessman
"I'm in the retail business, not the circus business."
Pharrell Williams
Musician, Producer
"I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus."
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"A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself."
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"It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant."
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"The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you."
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"So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!"
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"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip."
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"And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus."
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"So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions."
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"We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants."
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"I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus."
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"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!"
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"Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame."
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"Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?"
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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."
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"That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus"
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"Every time the circus comes to town, I can't help thinking, Somewhere out there, there's clown semen."
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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."
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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."
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"Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus."
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"My class is not a three ring circus."
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