Bo Burnham Quotes

This next piece is called 'Sonnet 155', or 'If Shakespeare Had Written a Porn', and it goes like this:

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• I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Me

• I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Person
  • Thought
  • Expression

• You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Why
  • Want
  • Fear

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Tradition

• I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Universe

• One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Company
  • Presence
  • Global

• It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Day

• Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.

  

  Nas
  • Mind
  • You
  • Look

• When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

  

  Owen Wister
  • You
  • Choose
  • Just

• Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Life
  • Long
  • Done

• What Alvin figured out was that when you’re Making, you don’t use people like tools. You don’t wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they’re right.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Listening

• And as for Gussie Fink-Nottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming him on sight.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• '(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Good
  • Wish

• The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • World
  • Black
  • Strong

• I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?'

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Done
  • Small

• I think in general, people look at all Olympic athletes, look at all superstar athletes, and they say, "Okay, this guy doesn't have any insecurities." They're almost like these icons who - I don't know how to say it, but like they can't make mistakes. But the reality is, and I'll tell you this firsthand, a lot of great athletes have a lot of insecurities, and they have a really hard time dealing with a lot of so-called losing or however you want to classify it.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy.

  

  King Tuff
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Wall

• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Soul
  • Persistence
  • Spite

• Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Player
  • Baseball

• If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Water
  • Air
  • Cat

• This next piece is called 'Sonnet 155', or 'If Shakespeare Had Written a Porn', and it goes like this:

  

  Bo Burnham