There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
BO BURNHAMThe strength of comedy is I don’t have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.
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I don’t like calling myself a “feminist” only because I don’t think I’ve done anything active enough to call myself one. It’d be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I’m not racist.
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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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Quotes are for dumb people who can’t think of something intelligent to say on their own.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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I’m also wary about the fact that if you don’t proceed with caution and understand what you’re doing, you understand these things are realities that you’re dealing with, they’re real things.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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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.
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