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Bill Cosby


American
July 12, 1937
Comedian
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If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.


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There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.


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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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A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.


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


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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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I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.


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It was hard for me, being in school. And nobody was there to tell me how important it was.


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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.


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Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.


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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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Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.


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I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.


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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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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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Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
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There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.
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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
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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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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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There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long.
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What we need is for people to realize - 'I want to raise my kid. I want to go back and get my three kids. I want to take on that responsibility. I want to love my children.'
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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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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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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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In September of 1960, I was blessed - and I'm not saying blessed in the everyday religious way - when Temple University accepted me after scoring 500 on the SAT. I was 23 years old, and they put me in remedial. I was the happiest remedial person on earth.
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I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.
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I'm one of those who cut off seeing people after a certain time, when the weight is gone and they sound like the dementia is very advanced - I don't want to see that. I don't even go in to look at the body. That's not my last memory.
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