Clowning Quotes

• A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.

  Red Buttons

  Giving, Helping

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• Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Respect, Rocks, Looks

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

  David Boreanaz

  School, Trouble

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• Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Comforting, Comedian, Musician

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Friends, Humor

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• Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Littles, Jazz, Opinion

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

  Conrad Hyers

  Family, Children, Irritation

  Conrad Hyers (2003). “The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

  Jonathan Chait

  Elements, Entertainment, Pretending

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

  Stephen Fry

  Ambition, Wrestling, Worry

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.152, Soho Press

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• It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump is primarily an entertainer who wants ratings, and an undisciplined speaker, and it will all be less than we think. It's something that we have to consider as a possibility; we don't know.

  Jonathan Chait

  Thinking, Want, Entertainment

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.

  Gene Lees

  Running, Years, Feet

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• Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Mean, Be Confident

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• In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.

  Rory McIlroy

  Honesty, School, Eye

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

  J. Cole

  Teacher, Smart, Class

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