We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
BO BURNHAMThe strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in – and I never went.
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I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.
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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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I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
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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,
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I don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
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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?
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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 don’t want to try to recreate for no reason. Like, me in my bedroom, singing songs to a camera was a special thing that was at that time in my life. But I’m just not that kid. I like the format of it, but I want to be able to release things for free.
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I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.
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Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
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I know it’s the comedian’s instinct to say, “Do it, man, nothing’s off-limits! It’s cool, bro!” I don’t know if that’s the answer for me.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
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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.
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
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