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Bill Cosby Quotes
Bill Cosby Quotes
Bill Cosby
American
Born:
Jul 12
,
1937
Love
Me
People
Think
You
I Am
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby
Best
Me
Too
Rules
Civilization
Had
Did
Rewrite
Them
Many
Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.
Bill Cosby
You
People
Sometimes
Try
Take Advantage
Take
Advantage
Then
Help
Help People
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
You
Humor
Laughter
Poverty
Find
Through
Around
Survive
Situations
Anything
Turn
Painful
Even
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.
Bill Cosby
Wisdom
Business
Generation
Made
Mistakes
Incredibly
Risky
Previous
Repeats
Cumulative
Children
Which
Gained
Hard
Each
Each Generation
Raising
Raising Children
Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Bill Cosby
God
Hair
Gray
Gray Hair
Old is always fifteen years from now.
Bill Cosby
Old
Always
Years
Fifteen
Now
There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.
Bill Cosby
People
Between
Knowing
Still
Wondering
Really
Gap
Believing
If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?
Bill Cosby
People
Better
Tell
Would
Come
Like
Make
How
Them
Poor
Poor People
Why
Lives
Laughter brings out the child in all of us.
Bill Cosby
Laughter
Out
Child
Us
Brings
Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.
Bill Cosby
People
Easier
Networking
Reach
Quicker
Social
Helps
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby
You
Yourself
People
Move On
Bitter
More
Go
Than
Forgive
Move
Forgiving
Let Go
Imagine
Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
Bill Cosby
You
Women
Think
Voice
Hear
Want
Deeper
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.
Bill Cosby
Love
You
People
Try
Think
Kids
Tell
About
Over
Cry
Person
Often
Love You
Who
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby
You
Will
Carry
Name
Vowel
Always
Yell
End
Child
Your
Your Child
You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.
Bill Cosby
You
Yourself
Better
Get
Reinvent
Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.
Bill Cosby
Somebody
Long
First
Immortality
Admit
Long Shot
Shot
There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.
Bill Cosby
Me
Wonderful
Reading
Become
Television
I Feel
Only
Feel
Make
Accessible
Hearing
Times
Stories
I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.
Bill Cosby
Temple
Scholarship
Track
Got
University
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby
Love
You
Pretending
Fatherhood
Most
Present
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.
Bill Cosby
Health
Food
You
People
Half
See
Steak
Look
House
Dead
Terrific
Course
Robust
Did
Stores
Dying
Customers
Skinny
Who
Ever
Pale
I use the exercise room early, because I don't want to get on the treadmill and everyone's going 'Oh, Bill Cosby,' and then they come around to see how fast I'm walking, and it becomes very competitive.
Bill Cosby
Everyone
See
Cosby
Come
Because
Exercise
Around
Becomes
How
Very
Walking
Get
Going
Oh
Want
Room
Then
Bill
Bill Cosby
Use
Fast
Treadmill
Early
Competitive
I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.
Bill Cosby
People
Think
About
Loud
Stopped
Want
Choices
Profanity
Street
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
Bill Cosby
Family
Will
Sister
Older
Every
Out
Dreaming
Brother
Look
Always
Them
Who
Older Brother
Imaginary
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.
Bill Cosby
Satire
Humor
He
Understand
Hallway
Misunderstood
Context
His
Up
Pryor
Just
Lit
Richard
Richard Pryor
Use
Used
Profanity
Many
Unique
Using
Now
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby
Funny
Hope
Future
God
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Because
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.
Bill Cosby
You
World
Remember
Own
Twitter
Kids
See
Someday
Something
Put
Like
Friend
Whispering
Your
Billboard
Whole
Including
Need
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