Quotes by Cosby, Bill

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

Cosby, Bill on advertising
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"A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice."

Cosby, Bill on advice
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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."

Cosby, Bill on fathers   

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

Cosby, Bill on marriage
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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."

Cosby, Bill on music
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"Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet."

Cosby, Bill on parents and parenting   

"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."

Cosby, Bill on parents and parenting
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"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."

Cosby, Bill on quality   

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

Cosby, Bill on racism
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Cosby, Bill on success
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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."

Cosby, Bill on children
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