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Bill Cosby
American
Born:
Jul 12
,
1937
Love
Me
People
Think
You
I Am
Things from real life are the things that get people laughing.
Bill Cosby
Life
People
Real Life
Laughing
Real
Get
Things
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Bill Cosby
Me
Survival
Speak
Mother
Past
Gave
Out
Brother
Russell
Examining
Put
Named
She
Discovered
Fittest
Child
Did
Eggs
Taught
Younger
Younger Brother
Meant
Who
Her
Started
Basket
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Bill Cosby
You
Will
Consistently
Though
Kids
Telling
Exact
Exact Opposite
Opposite
Just
Just As Much
Loving
Them
Much
Your
Even
Keep
We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.
Bill Cosby
Girl
Parents
Young
Too
Parent
Know
Got
How
Young Girls
Themselves
Turning
Who
Many
I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.'
Bill Cosby
Love
Saying
People
Some People
Salt
Twitter
I Love
Some
Point
Like
Pass
Much
Use
Profanity
What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then... thinking that my mother would be embarrassed, and that I didn't want to embarrass her, and that my father would be embarrassed, and I just didn't want to do that to my family.
Bill Cosby
Family
Me
Mother
Father
Trouble
Edge
Thinking
Embarrass
Embarrassed
Out
Would
Would-Be
Going
Just
Want
Then
Her
Right
Kept
George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
Bill Cosby
Creative
Words
Brilliant
Humor
Clever
Carlin
Drawing
Out
Something
Johnny
Winters
Taking
George
George Carlin
Very
Common
Being
People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'
Bill Cosby
Me
Tired
You
People
Looking
Say
People Say
Guy
Do You Know
Like
Know
Look
Really
Who
I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.
Bill Cosby
Me
People
I Am
Try
Status
Give
Because
Am
Celebrity
Celebrity Status
Going
Exploit
Who
There are certain times of the day when you need a balance - that is, your protein and your carbs. I'm a Barry Sears man. I believe that anything green is a carb, and I need 2:1. Two of the carbs to one of the protein.
Bill Cosby
Day
You
Man
Balance
Believe
I Believe
I Believe That
Protein
Times
Green
Anything
Certain
Your
Barry
Carbs
Two
Need
I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.
Bill Cosby
God
Problem
Unfinished
Thought
Some
About
Finishing
He
Genesis
Missing
Without
Doing
Go
End
Wonder
Did
Just
Where
Sentences
Pages
Hello
Believing
Jesus
Adam
'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in, so that the white racist person can become entertaining to a viewer.
Bill Cosby
Man
Woman
Black
Become
White
Entertaining
Absence
Color
Tension
Spy
Walking
Person
Represents
Anyone
Viewer
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.
Bill Cosby
Christmas
Living
Christmas Tree
Tree
Projects
Housing
Child
Even
Philadelphia
There's no tradition today except initials, 'CSI,' 'NCIS,' all the rest. Even with reruns today, people don't know there was a 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' or 'Andy Griffith,' or 'Cheers.'
Bill Cosby
Today
People
Rest
Van
Andy
Except
CSI
Know
Cheers
Tradition
Dick Van Dyke
Dyke
Reruns
Show
Initial
Even
According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.
Bill Cosby
Gun
State
Herself
Him
According
Person
Right
Florida
Defend
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.
Bill Cosby
Day
Every Day
People
Every
Negatively
Negativity
Neighborhood
Telling
About
How
Behave
Us
Should
Help
Marches
Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.
Bill Cosby
Time
Word
Looking
Most
Learn
Read
Sentence
Us
Each
I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.
Bill Cosby
Day
Every Day
Behavior
Practice
Every
Think
Bad
About
Something
Through
Talk
Schools
Understand
How
Get
Just
Children
Want
Anything
Explain
Really
Should
Teachers
Start
Violence
Violent
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.
Bill Cosby
Parenting
You
Matter
Try
Behavior
Will
Not Talking
Kids
Bizarre
About
Talking
Calmly
Always
How
Referee
Normal
Produce
Eventually
'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.
Bill Cosby
Culture
Comedy
Made
Television
Cosby
Impact
Bar
Lowering
Show
Rejected
It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life.
Bill Cosby
Life
Pride
Jockey
Entire
Entire Life
Point
His
Male
American
Same
Size
Shorts
Keep
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.
Bill Cosby
Myself
Day
Class
Hate
Old
First
Ran
Would
Inside
Somehow
Knew
Almost
Got
Freshman
Years
Left
Up
Forever
Sitting
Ashamed
English
Away
University
If I read the small print, and I see that what I love to taste has pantonaponamene or fake smeinlioaimine, then I have to hide in my room when I eat it. I'm still gonna eat it, it's just gonna be 'Don't come in here!'
Bill Cosby
Love
Hide
I See
I Love
See
Eat
Small
Come
Read
Print
Fake
Still
Taste
Just
Room
Gonna
Then
Here
I watch an awful lot of television, and I get a little tired of what I see... We have about six television sets in our house, and it's less expensive for me to do a television series than it is for me to throw them all out.
Bill Cosby
Me
Tired
Sets
Our
Television
Television Series
I See
Out
See
All-Out
About
Throw
House
Lot
Than
Get
Six
Expensive
Little
Them
Less
Series
Awful
Awful Lot
Watch
Too many people are waiting for Jesus to come along and cut your grass. And Jesus isn't going to come along and cut your grass.
Bill Cosby
Waiting
People
Too Many People
Grass
Too
Along
Come
Going
Cut
Your
Many
Jesus
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.
Bill Cosby
Saying
You
Integrity
Speak
Mind
Think
I Think
Carries
Through
True
Then
Your
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