Bo Burnham on distance
Bo Burnham61 quotes“In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.”
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The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Where are all the sour patch parents?
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham 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.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don’t want to construct the show to prove something.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham There’s a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he’s a good conductor?
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you’re on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don’t want to be onstage looking like a robot,
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I’m happy with what I’m doing. I try not to focus on how I’ve changed. I just try to focus on what I’m doing now.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
AdyashantiAdyashanti whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.
Agnes Baker PilgrimAgnes Baker Pilgrim It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.
Adrian FrutigerAdrian Frutiger The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
AkhenatenAkhenaten Being around their presence means shit if their heart is miles apart.
C.R. ElliottC.R. Elliott The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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