Bo Burnham Quotes

Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Road

• I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Connection

• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Trying
  • Thoughts
  • Enjoy

• I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Like

• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Criticism
  • Sympathy
  • Universities

• There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Mission
  • Statement
  • Toast

• Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Different
  • Wrestling
  • Quiet

• From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Good
  • Long
  • Faith

• I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Dad
  • Powerful

• Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Time
  • You
  • Honor

• Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Universe
  • Suffering

• No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Matter
  • Same
  • Depression

• As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Guy
  • Designer
  • Niche

• As Akins observes, it is not the point of our sensory systems that they should detect 'basic' or 'natural' properties of the environment, but that they should serve our 'narcissistic' purposes in staying alive; nature doesn't build epistemic engines.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Nature
  • Environment

• Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

  

  Yukio Mishima

• It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society

• I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Car
  • Consumer

• There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

  

  William McIlvanney
  • People
  • Laughter
  • Charity

• The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Confused
  • Enlightenment
  • Ambiguity

• It is important to be passionate, but it is also important to combine the heart and the head. I have made mistakes in both my private and professional lives.

  

  Jose Carreras
  • Heart
  • Lives
  • Head

• Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

  

  Bo Burnham
  • Laughter