Bill Cosby Quotes

• You can’t compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

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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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• The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

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• I was put in remedial everything.

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• We’re not raising children with the love that we need to.

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• I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

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• Every success story has a parent who says, ‘over my dead body.’ Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you’re acting the fool, ‘you know I worry about you sometimes.’

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• I’m not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I’m healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don’t want to eat, but I eat it because I’m enjoying staying alive.

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• Did you ever see the customers in health – food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half – dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific.

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• There is no job a man can do that is undignified – if he does it well.

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

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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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• The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

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• The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

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• The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

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• The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

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• The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

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Bill Cosby (84)

Birth:	12th July, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actor, Author, Comedian, Producer

About

Bill Cosby was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and activist. Cosby's start in stand-up began at the hungry i in San Francisco which was followed by landing a starring role in the 1960s show I Spy. During its first two seasons, he was a regular on the children's television series The Electric Company. Cosby is known for creating the cartoon comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in an urban area. Cosby has also been a film actor. In 1976, Cosby earned a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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