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Bill Cosby

William Henry Cosby, Jr., Ed.D. (born July 12, 1937) is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy. He later starred in his own series, The Bill Cosby Show, in 1969. He was one of the major characters on the children's television show The Electric Company for its first two seasons, and created the humorous educational cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in the city. Cosby also acted in numerous films

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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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There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

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Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

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A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

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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 Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

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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.

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

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

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

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I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

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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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If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.

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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.

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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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Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

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People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

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

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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.

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Quotes from the news wire:

I'm a free man.

Found on FOX News 2 years ago

I'm just so happy, because this guy is proving my innocence, and guess what else. America is finally getting to witness the truth.

Found on CNN 5 years ago

Let us pray for a better tomorrow, which starts today.

Found on CNN 6 years ago

>( CNN) Bill Cosby has replaced his entire defense team ahead of his sentencing hearing in September.Cosby's attorney, Tom Mesereau, and the rest of his defense team were replaced by attorney Joseph P. Green, the comedian's spokesman Andrew Wyatt said. Andrew Wyatt did not elaborate on the reason for the change.CNN reached out to Green for comment but has not yet received a response.Cosby was found guilty in April of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004. Read MoreThe 80-year-old comedian is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on September 24. He faces up to 10 years in prison on each count, although the actual sentence is likely to be much shorter.The verdict came a year after Cosby's previous trial ended in a mistrial, as a different panel of jurors said they were deadlocked and could not unanimously agree on a verdict. What the case was aboutThe case against Bill Cosby centered on testimony from Constand, a former employee with Temple University women's basketball team. She testified that Bill Cosby, a powerful trustee at Temple University, drugged her and sexually assaulted her when she visited Bill Cosby home to ask for career advice 14 years ago.The trial had the.

Found on CNN 6 years ago

I have something for that.

Found on Reuters 6 years ago

I just hope I'm not in trouble now, man.

Found on CNN 7 years ago

I still feel that I have an awful lot to offer in terms of my writing, in terms of my performance.

Found on CNN 7 years ago

There's an old show business saying, 'Look, it doesn't make any difference as long as they spell your name right,' well, I want to raise my hand and say I want to really debate that strongly.

Found on CNN 7 years ago

I won't, and I cannot answer that, it's really not fair, and you know that because all I have to do is say something similar to that and the next thing I know the postman is carrying a big bag, or whoever it is, it's saying 'defamation, defamation, defamation.'.

Found on CNN 7 years ago

You know better than that, meaning, you can't answer that question, or you won't answer that question?

Found on CNN 7 years ago

I don’t hear her say anything .?.?. And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection.

Found on FOX News 8 years ago

She became, in those days, what was called high.

Found on FOX News 8 years ago

I meet Ms. Picking in Las Vegas. She meets me backstage. I give her Quaaludes. We then have sex.

Found on FOX News 8 years ago

Quaaludes happen to be the drug that kids, young people were using to party with and there were times when I wanted to have them just in case.

Found on CNN 9 years ago

Inviting her to my house, talking to her about personal situations dealing with her life, growth, education access and thoughts to how to acquire a more aggressive attitude, protecting oneself in business. i think I'm a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever Bill Cosby want to call them.

Found on CNN 9 years ago

She meets me backstage, i give her Quaaludes. We then have sex. ... I think she may very well have been very happy to be around the show business surroundings.

Found on CNN 9 years ago

I think Andrea is a liar, and I know she's a liar because I was there.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

I don't hear her say anything. And I don't feel her say anything. And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection. I am not stopped.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

The same as a person would say have a drink.

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

I walk her out. She does not look angry. She does not say to me, don’t ever do that again, she does n’t walk out with an attitude of a huff, because I think that I ’m a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever Bill Cosby want to call them.

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

These people are not funny anymore. And that's not brother. And that's not my sister. They're faking and they're dragging me way down.

Found on CNN 9 years ago

Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals, these are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged: 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?

Found on CNN 9 years ago

I'm talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18, and how come you don't know he had a pistol? And where is his father, and why don't you know where he is? And why doesn't the father show up to talk to this boy?

Found on CNN 9 years ago

She meets me backstage. I give her Quaaludes. We then have sex.

Found on CNN 9 years ago

I can't speak, I just don't want to argue, I don't talk about it.

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

I'm telling you where the road is out. I'm telling you where, as you're driving, you're going to go into water and it looks like it might only be three inches deep, but you and your car are going to go down, now you want to go here or you want to be concerned about who's giving you the message?

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Read Genesis in the Bible, and you'll see that the woman was the game-changer.

Found on CNN 9 years ago

No, no, we will not cover that today, we are not talking about that tonight. What we're going to cover is the performance of Bill Cosby.

Found on CNN 9 years ago

He's one of my mentors, and he's been very influential and played a big role in my life as a friend and mentor.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

I have thousands of loyal, patient and courageous fans that are going to leave their homes to enjoy an evening of laughter and return home feeling wonderful.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

I have thousands of loyal, patient and courageous fans that are going to leave their homes to enjoy an evening of laughter and return home feeling wonderful, i'm ready!

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

First of all thank you.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

If a disruption occurs, please remain calm until the matter is resolved and do not confront the person making the disruption.

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

You [the media] don’t need private investigators to find out information about the accusers. A simple Google search will obtain the information.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

If you’re going to say to the world that I did this to you, then the world needs to know, ‘What kind of person are you? Who is this person that’s saying it?’?.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Parenting is not going on.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn't have to answer to innuendos.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

There's not a lot of landing strip, the other alternative is to call it a career and put up the going out of business sign.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

They don’t want me talking to the media.

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Let me say this, i only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Love and the strength of womanhood, let me say it again, love and the strength of womanhood. And, you could reverse it, the strength of womanhood and love.

Found on CNN 9 years ago

A stand-up concert is a free forum for audiences to scream whatever they want.

Found on FOX News 9 years ago

The entire mode of The Cosby Show can't proceed, o.J. completely trumps everything else that's been happening in the episode.

Found on CNN 9 years ago

I have always been proud of my association with Temple University, i have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university and its students. As a result, I have tendered my resignation from the Temple University Board of Trustees.

Found on CNN 10 years ago

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