Bill Cosby Quotes

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

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• If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beautiful
  • Small
  • Unique

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Job
  • Look
  • Said

• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Art
  • Walking

• I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Act
  • Citizens
  • Defense

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Think
  • You
  • Pain

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • You
  • Space

• It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Great
  • Play

• Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Technology

• The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Collage

• I love taking chances.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Love
  • Chances
  • Taking

• I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Blessed
  • Scary
  • Laugh

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Optimist

• I'm only a human being.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Always
  • Go

• Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Really
  • Comfortable

• In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Games

• When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending the wage gap, we will help ensure that every child can achieve his or her God-given potential.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • God
  • Children
  • Help

• We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Age
  • Water
  • Helping

• Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

  

  Bill Cosby
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