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Bill Cosby - America's Dad
Bill Cosby - America's Dad
Quotations by Bill Cosby
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"A Word to the wise ain't necessary-it's the stupid ones that need advice"
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
"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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Bill Cosby's Life
Ode to Bill Cosby
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July 12, 1937 - Born
1956 - Went to the Navy
1963 - Appearance on "The Tonight Show"
1964 - Got Married
1965 - First Acting Job
1969 - "The Bill Cosby Show"
1977 - Doctorate in Urban Education
1984 - "The Cosby Show"
1986 - Became a "Best-Selling"Author
1997 - His only son murdered
2003 - He received the "Bob Hope Humanitarian Award"
2009 - He received the "Mark Twain Prize for American Humor"
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World Events
Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia Web. 16 March 2013.
He had a hard knocks life
His Dad was a drunk
He tried to teach his brothers not to be a "punk"
Bill used humor to make people laugh
This worked most of the time & more than half
Two times he quit school
He got his GED, Masters, Doctorate & proved he wasn't a fool!
Electric Company, Fat Albert, The Cosby Show & Jello, just to name a few
Comedian, Actor, Educator, Activist too.
He constantly lectured people to be better and aspire to be more
He didn't want people to live uneducated & poor
Not bad for a kid who grew up in the slums of Philly
Who made his life out of being silly!
1937 - Beginning of World War II
1957 - Launch of Sputnik 1
1959 - Admission of Alaska & Hawaii into the US
1959 - First documented AIDS case
1959 - Beginning of Vietnam War
1963 - Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1968 - Assassination of Martin Luther King
1977- Introduction of the first mass-produced personal computer
1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall
1990 - Invention of the World Web Web on the Internet
1991- Gulf War Ends
2001 - Sept. 11th, Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center
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