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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Alone Circus Die Each Eaten Going Love Make Nothing Other Should Up Us

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I can be going through nothing, but within me, in my head, oh my God! It can be a circus.

~Christian Slater

Topics: Circus God Going Head Me Nothing Oh Oh My God Through Within I Can

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When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

~Christina Hendricks

Topics: About After Amazing Black-And-White Book Bought Carnival Circus Clowns Dating Fascination First Freaks Had He Husband Me Month Old Photo Started Things Weird 1930S

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When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

~Christopher Walken

Topics: Carol Circus Did Guy Had He His Joined Kid Like Name Own Owned Small Small Thing Thing Think True You

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When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.

~Christopher Walken

Topics: Any Big Bit Circus Dress He His Identical Just Just One Kid Kids Lion Man Named Outfit Owned Son Tent Touring Up Worked Would

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When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.

~Clarence Clemons

Topics: Backstage Bruce Bruce Springsteen Circus Go See Show Springsteen You

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The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Always Attraction Circus Crowd Dangerous Happen Hope Like Public Something Very Will

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Damn everything but the circus.

~Corita Kent

Topics: Circus Damn Everything

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Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.

~Criss Angel

Topics: Animals Because Circus First Group Had Immense Just Know Really Reinventing Respect Rings Say Show Television Television Show Them Thought Three Well Were You

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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

~Dakota Johnson

Topics: Automobiles Circus Feel Grew Know Like People Planes Really Talented Trains Up Weird I Feel I Feel Like

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