Bo Burnham on levels
Bo Burnham61 quotes“For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.”
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I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop’s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham 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.
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Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
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…the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
Ben BernankeBen Bernanke In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
Ben HorowitzBen Horowitz Conservatives have woken up to the fact they weren`t part of their team and they have a capability of having the kind of message that [Donald] Trump is delivering reach them on a very direct and very personal level so that they sign up. They are willing to go out there and work for him.
Ben DomenechBen Domenech Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you.
Banana YoshimotoBanana Yoshimoto Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.
Barry McCaffreyBarry McCaffrey All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
BanksyBanksy New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.
Baratunde ThurstonBaratunde Thurston If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.
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