J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me."
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John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."
Rainn Wilson
Actor
"Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown."
Frank Sinatra
Singer, Actor
"Dare to wear the foolish clown face."
Rainn Wilson
Actor
"I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that."
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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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"Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown."
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"You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you."
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"Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am."
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"Nobody likes a clown at midnight"
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"No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable"
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"All the world loves a clown."
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"There's nothing like a clown with a boner to remind you that you're having a nightmare."
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"He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things."
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"Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand."
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"Clowns have no respect for pie."
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"Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast."
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"I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium."
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"Do those clowns really believe what they teach?"
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"There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show."
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"Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society."
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"My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns."
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"I'm secretly afraid of clowns. But it's not a secret now...dang."
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"I really wasn't a class clown."
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