I don’t try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
BO BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes.
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I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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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.
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Love is all about… whistles.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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The average person has one Fallopian tube.
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