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

• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wish

• 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

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Management
  • Partnerships

• It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

  

  Mike Stoller
  • Change
  • Write
  • Melody

• If you know your archetypes - and not just yours, if you know how to perceive the world in archetypes, through archetypes - everything changes. Everything. Because you have two things: you can see through one eye which is impersonal, and through the other, which is personal. That's the way the game is written down here.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • World
  • Eye

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

  

  Bill Cosby
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