I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
BILL COSBYNothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
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I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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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 Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
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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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The serve was invented so that the net could play.
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A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
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That’s why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.
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I’m not the boss of my house. I don’t know how I lost it, I don’t know when I lost it, I don’t really think I ever had it. But I’ve seen the boss’s job and I don’t want it!
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Decide that you want it more than you’re afraid of it.
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You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don’t want to see the dog doing them.
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
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