Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby
William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr.is an American former stand-up comedian, actor, author and singer-songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth12 July 1937
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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If you read my sixth-grade report card, you'd notice that I started with unsatisfactory grades. My teacher sent a note home to my mother that said I was a 'good boy' but I 'needed to be watched.' She put a 'body' on me. Our children are trying to tell us something. They are trying to tell the black mayors, school superintendents, teachers - all of us, that they need a whole lot of bodies on them.
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Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.
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Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.
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College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things.
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Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.
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Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.
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In dealing with kids, no matter how little we understand their explanations, we must always remember that we're the adults. What this means I have no idea. It certainly means nothing to the kids, who instinctively seem to know that adults are merely strange people who have dopey ideas like ""Stop throwing peas at your sister.
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If my father ever told me that, ... I'd tear the corner off a piece of paper and say, 'There you are, Dad. Go ahead. Wail me.'
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I want to die before my wife, and the reason is this: If it is true that when you die, your soul goes up to judgment, I don't want my wife up there ahead of me to tell them things.
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Take that money and build something you can see ... something for the children.
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Anyone should be able to say on stage what they want. But those who have knowledge, do understand that certain things on stage can be abused and misused. And if such topics are used just for laughter, the humor will not stand the test of time.
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This was a threat being carried out -- $40 million for 22 years, ... I've watched these people, paying them, answering their wants and needs. This was a real threat, and I wanted her mother to know what she was doing.
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We're the geniuses of the house because only a person intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.
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You are well-educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.