Jugglers Quotes

• You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.

  John Armstrong

  Priorities, Balls, Asks

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• When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

  Darynda Jones

  Fighting, Clown

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.293, St. Martin's Press

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• I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

  Elvis Costello

  Running, Hands, Explanation

  Song: Welcome to the Working Week, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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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.

  Bob Dylan

  Clown, Tricks

  Song: Like A Rolling Stone

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• The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

  Khalil Gibran

  Missing, Balls, Appeals

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• Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Actors, Diplomats, Lovers

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

  Arthur Ashe

  Time, Air, Balls

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• A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Years, Practice, Skills

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.352

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• No one's trying to get with jugglers.

  Aziz Ansari

  Trying

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• I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in threes. He has three apples left, I guess I can't have one. I wouldn't want to screw up his practice routine.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Practice

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• It takes about 6 hours of practice a day for quite a few years to become a professional juggler. I started when I was 14 and that discipline has helped me immensely as a performer.

  Jeff Raz

  Years, Practice, Discipline

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• Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Use, Coins

  Michel de Montaigne (1908). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Ignorance, Law

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• According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Air, Public Opinion, Balls

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.493, Princeton University Press

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• Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Strong, Farewell

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• I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

  Jeff Dunham

  Guy, Seven, Said

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

  Penn Jillette

  Mean, Eight, Hands

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

  William Shakespeare

  Thieves

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.326

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• We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.

  Faye J Crosby

  Determination, Real, Path

  Faye J. Crosby (1991). “Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families”, Free Pr

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• I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Lying, Reality

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• I'm a really good juggler.

  Lucy Hale

  "Lucy Hale on the Set of A Cinderella Story!". Interview with Kelli Acciardo, www.seventeen.com. March 31, 2011.

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• Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Football, Player, Boredom

  "The Screenplays: The Hospital; Network; Altered states".

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• Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

  Ronald Graham

  Science, Mathematics, Said

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• I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

  Steve Martin

  Kids, Taught, Comedy

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• The Lords of Chaos are
  the enemies of Logic,
  the jugglers of Truth,
  the molders of Beauty

  Michael Moorcock

  Enemy, Logic, Chaos

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