Bo Burnham on cousin
Bo Burnham61 quotes“How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I’ve got a cousin who is 18… Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.”
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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 I’m just ready to keep going.
Billy GilmanBilly Gilman
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Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
Laura CleggLaura Clegg
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50 Cent is a hero to me because he’s overcome so many things. He’s been shot nine times and lived. I had a cousin got shot once in the ankle. Dead.
Bill BellamyBill Bellamy So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins, Niles [Paul] and [Bashaud] Breeland who may be better than the players that they’re replacing.
Bill CowherBill Cowher Kirk Cousins is the future of the Washington Redskins.
Bill CowherBill Cowher My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.
Barbara Taylor BradfordBarbara Taylor Bradford My cousin’s gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
Rodney DangerfieldRodney Dangerfield My mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
Alan KingAlan King My mum had a cousin that had played when he was younger.
Al MurrayAl Murray
