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In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
Billy JoelBilly Joel I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
Bo BurnhamBo Burnham 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 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.
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
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Mental health doesn’t have to be an uphill battle.
Isabel RocioIsabel Rocio The worst thing is not to share our pain with each other when you can.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase I have happened in so many places, to so many people – the essence of me lives on in these nuances, these moments.
Lang LeavLang Leav Respect your body, it’s a home to be thankful for.
SargamSargam My heart holds your name like it’s the only thing it knows.
N.M SanchezN.M Sanchez Listening and empathizing will enable you to look past fake smiles and dive deeper into the pain in their eyes.
Ankur SinghAnkur Singh I heard the universe whisper “take care of her”
Karla GaleanaKarla Galeana Respect me, not because I respect you, but because I deserve your respect.
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On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
Rodney DangerfieldRodney Dangerfield When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Rodney DangerfieldRodney Dangerfield He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
Bob UeckerBob Uecker Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere.
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