Circus Clowns Quotes

• Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

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  Eminem

  Rap   Circles   Hip Hop  

  Song: If I Get Locked Up Tonight

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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.

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  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Lonely   Real   Hug  

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

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  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs   School   Skills  

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

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  Harper Lee

  Thinking   Tkam   Laughing  

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

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  Harper Lee

  Tkam   Laughing   Kind  

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

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  Harper Lee

  Thinking   Tkam   Track  

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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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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  Nicolas Cage

  Stars   Complaining   Circus  

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