Decide that you want it more than you’re afraid of it.
BILL COSBYMediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.
More Bill Cosby Quotes
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Only stupid one’s.
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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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If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.
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I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty, I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.
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Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you’re pouring, or drinking.
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I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don’t cry over the one person who doesn’t.
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I was’nt always black. There was this freckel that just grew and grew.
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Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
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When you become senile, you won’t know it.
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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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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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You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don’t want to see the dog doing them.
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Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
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Nobody ever says, Can I have your beets?
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Never forget that the devil is there 24/7 too. He’s very, very busy.
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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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Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
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The serve was invented so that the net could play.
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And so the dentist says ‘Rinse.’ So you lean over, and you’re lookin’ at this miniature toilet bowl.
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I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!
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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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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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All parents experience the same problems.
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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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Nothing 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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