Christina Hendricks

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.

American Actress

Martin Rees

The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest.

British Scientist

Michelle Malkin

Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow.

American Writer

Michael Caputo

After directing broadcast media coverage for seven House committees, I know the signs of a sideshow - and delivering demand letters to reporters before they go to the person being asked to produce documents is one of the chief signs.

American Public Servant

Stormy Daniels

Simply because I did not fit in their mold of what an independent working woman should be, the media and political elite have sought to relegate my sense of civic responsibility to mere sideshow antics.

American Celebrity

Jonathan Lethem

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

Billy Barty

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

American Actor

John Landgraf

As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.

American Businessman

Too Short

The number-one thing about the hyphy isn't the sideshow or doing donuts. It's the music.

Woodrow Wilson

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

American President

A sideshow doesn't have the main focus, it's something extra but not the key attraction.

Lesser Spotlight

Sideshows add variety and additional entertainment to the main event.

Additional Fun

Historically, sideshows are associated with carnivals and circuses, featuring unique acts.

Cultural Origins

A sideshow is a side issue, often used to refer to events that draw attention away from the main issue.

Secondary Importance

The term can imply a tactic to divert attention from something more significant.

Distraction Technique

 these words of birth I like peace love natural death as an option I do think we have to get political and start to reclaim this process from the medicalised model in which it's going now listen that sounds like a pitch for euthanasia I want to make it absolutely crystal clear to you all I hate euthanasia I think it's a sideshow I

Let's talk about dying -...

 I do think we have to get political and start to reclaim this process from the medicalized model in which it's going. Now, listen, that sounds like a pitch for euthanasia. I want to make it absolutely crystal clear to you all, I hate euthanasia. I think it's a sideshow. I don't think euthanasia matters.

Peter Saul: Let's talk...

 has gone to great lengths to radically transform his body he's the lizard man and outcasts by design without further ado I would like to introduce the little green man the freak of nature the lizard man these days Eric works as a sideshow