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.
BO BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don’t want to construct the show to prove something.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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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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People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
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I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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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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We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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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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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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