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Bill Cosby
20 quotes
“If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The weatherman is always right, It's his timing that's off.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let the message be known to bigots and racists that they don’t count!”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1968 when accepting his third Emmy Award.
“People putting their clothes on backwards. Isn't that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn't that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not interested in statistics that tell me things are not as bad as they seem. Things are horrible. I have met people crying about what is happening, but there is no solution yet. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening. I don't care what the statistics say.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paths to Success: A Forum on African American Men" panel discussion (July 18, 2006), quoted in {{cite news
“We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, "This is too difficult, too hard," he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)
“My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know I didn't say anything, but I'm asking your integrity that since I didn't wanna say anything, but I did answer you, in terms of I don't wanna say anything of what value will it have? ... And I would appreciate it if it was scuttled.”
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“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.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have never changed my stance nor my story. I have always maintained my innocence. Thank you to all my fans, supporters and friends who stood by me through this ordeal. Special thanks to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for upholding the rules of law.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 2021 on his acquittal concerning sexual assault allegations that involved him.
“My wife and I have five children, and the reason we have five children is because we do not want six.”
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“My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, "You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Carol Burnett put it best when she described labor pains. She said, "Take your bottom lip, and pull it over your head.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I said to a guy, I said, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful?", and he said, "Well, it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair, and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em — they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.”
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“My wife stood up in the stirrups, grabbed my bottom lip and said "I want morphine!" I said "But, dear —" [vigorously breathing]. She said "You shut up! YOU did this to me!" And on the next contraction she told everybody in the delivery room that my parents were never married.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.”
Bill Cosby (born 1937) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dr Bill Cosby Speaks at the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Brown vs Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court Decision," known as the "Pound Cake" speech (May 2004).