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Bill Cosby
American
Born:
Jul 12
,
1937
Love
Me
People
Think
You
I Am
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.
Bill Cosby
Life
Teacher
Time
Mistake
School
Made
College
My Life
Important
Gone
Astray
Point
Had
School Teacher
Because
Felt
Boy
Making
Important Time
Go
Grade
Same
Wanted
Decided
Them
Really
Help
Keep
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.
Bill Cosby
Saying
Me
Old
Blessed
September
Everyday
Earth
Way
Religious
Temple
Put
Accepted
Years
Scoring
Person
After
Happiest
Sat
University
When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?
Bill Cosby
School
Black
Men
Our
Out
Bad
Some
Percent
Lawyers
Dropping
Look
How
Off
Going
Need
Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
Bill Cosby
Family
Conflict
Relate
Something
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.
Bill Cosby
Education
Science
People
Words
Speak
World
Think
Those
Gifts
All People
Clarity
Embrace
Able
Something
Greatest
Math
Cultures
Happens
Need
There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.
Bill Cosby
People
Some People
Trouble
Recognizing
Some
Mess
Who
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosby
Reluctantly
Shared
Course
Traffic
Friends
Did
Endlessly
Essence
Childhood
Which
Play
Streets
That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill Cosby
Day
Together
Live
Married
Married Couples
Miracle
Vatican
Couples
Overlooked
After
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.
Bill Cosby
Father
Whatever
Situation
Fathering
Percent
Fact
Take
He
Feels
New
Bewildered
Him
Comfort
Does
American
Any
Being
Fifty
Even
Right
Defeated
Chance
Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what I do.
Bill Cosby
Good
You
People
Guess
Mine
Draw
He
Said
Friend
Karl
Good Friend
I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years. And nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn't do.
Bill Cosby
You
People
Speak
First
I See
Obama
Would
See
About
He
Nobody
Hill
Talk
Rock
Hear
Years
Hear People
Size
Elevation
Four
If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency, that's all they're gonna get.
Bill Cosby
You
Took
Emergency
Take
Check
Likely
Dentist
Child
Get
Just
Them
Gonna
Your
Your Child
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.
Bill Cosby
Long
States
See
Eaten
Properly
Daytime
Cry
Because
Child
Children
Soap
Used
Teachers
Who
United
United States
We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.
Bill Cosby
People
Gun
Neighborhood
Out
Supposed
Got
Get
Hands
Who
Watch
When my son was murdered, people asked me how I felt about God and what had happened to my son. I said, 'No, you can't go there. You have to understand that there is a devil, and he works 24/7. Whoever murdered our son was with the devil.'
Bill Cosby
God
Me
You
Son
People
Devil
Our
About
Had
He
Felt
Understand
Said
How
Go
Happened
Asked
Whoever
Works
Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.
Bill Cosby
Learning
Eyes
Practice
Constant
Something
Takes
Read
Clusters
Your
Naturally
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby
Work
Today
Man
Danger
Calls
Returns
His
Pipe
Any
Who
Chair
Appetite
I never saw anything funny in a car commercial - but that's OK. Whatever they wanted to do - it's their product and I'm the spokesperson, and I'm going to deliver.
Bill Cosby
Funny
Car
Whatever
Saw
OK
Deliver
Never
Spokesperson
Commercial
Going
Wanted
Anything
Product
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby
Love
People
Having
Most
Beautifully
Surely
Child
Commit
Irrational
Act
Two
Two People
You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.
Bill Cosby
You
Smaller
Walmart
Successful
Businesses
Compete
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