Bo Burnham on facts
Bo Burnham61 quotes“If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there’s a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.”
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There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn’t love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.
Bethany CosentinoBethany Cosentino True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
William JamesWilliam James Love is all about… whistles.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I’m just ready to keep going.
Billy GilmanBilly Gilman I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!
Brad GoreskiBrad Goreski Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.
Benjamin BannekerBenjamin Banneker What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it’s totally not, which is why I’m trying to get away from it because it’s just easy and automatic.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I’ve got a cousin who is 18… Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that’s not selfless that you love your fans, that’s ridiculous.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I just think they aren’t true. I’m saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don’t know if I’m doing that, but I’m trying.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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Little PaulsonLittle Paulson They say what is lost can always be found in the last place you look but I wouldn’t be so sure that you’ll ever see this version of me again.
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Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
Bill NyeBill Nye If there’s any mystery to me at all, it’s probably due to the fact that I’m not online and don’t go to conventions–which means that I’m probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.
Bentley LittleBentley Little The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.
Bo GritzBo Gritz A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
Blanche LincolnBlanche Lincoln The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.
Blaise CendrarsBlaise Cendrars In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
Bill MoyersBill Moyers Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
Bill MoyersBill Moyers There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
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