Bill Cosby quotes
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“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
-- Bill CosbySource : Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009
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“Romance is a different word than sexual contact.”
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“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
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“If I use the word romance, whether it's my wife or not, it does not mean sex. We can use the word sex when sex is there.”
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“Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.”
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“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.”
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“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.”
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“Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.”
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“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
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“The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.”
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“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”
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“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”
-- Bill CosbySource : Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009
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“I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.”
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“Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.”
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“The problem is that your daughter has given her heart to a 15-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old boy does not yet qualify as a human being.”
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“The serve was invented so that the net could play.”
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“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.”
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“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.”
-- Bill CosbySource : Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”
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“Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.”
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“I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.”
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“When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.”
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“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.”
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“When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.”
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“The essence of childhood, of course, is play.”
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“Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.”
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“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”
-- Bill CosbySource : Twitter post from Nov 05, 2009
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“We are the only animals that let our kids come back home.”
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“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.”
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“Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.”
-- Bill CosbySource : Twitter post from Nov 03, 2009
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“Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.”
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“If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”
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“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”
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“Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.”
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“Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.”
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“You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.”
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“I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.”
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“Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.”
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“One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.”
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“we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.”
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“Why do kids always say peace out, I though peace was in.”
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“I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.”
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“A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.”
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“Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.”
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“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”
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“YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.”
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“A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.”
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“I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.”
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“If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.”
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“I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.”
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“Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.”
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“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.”
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“When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.”
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“There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.”
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“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.”
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“It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.”
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“Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.”
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“Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.”
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“My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, “You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you.”
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“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.”
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“If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.”
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“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”
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“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”
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“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”
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“I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn’t have to answer to innuendos,”
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“I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.”
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“There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.”
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“My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.”
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“There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.”
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“Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.”
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“Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.”
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“The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.”
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“It doesn't make any difference how much money a father earns, his name is always Dad-Can-I.... Like all other children, my five have one great talent: they are gifted beggars. Not one of them ever ran into the room, looked up at me, and said, "I'm really happy that you're my father, and as a tangible token of my appreciation, here's a dollar.”
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“If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.”
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“It's more blessed to give than to receive -- especially kittens.”
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“The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.”
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“Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.”
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“You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.”
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“People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.”
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“If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes.”
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“With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.”
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“Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you.”
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“All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right”
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“These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.”
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“I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore, unless I bring something to read."”
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“Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.”
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“Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.”
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“There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.”
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“Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!”
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“I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"”
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“Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.”
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