Art Linkletter Quotes

• Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well.

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• The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

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• The depths of the Depression. You didn’t ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn’t ask about stock options, or – you said yes.

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• Sometimes I’m asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven’t tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.

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• One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.

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• My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It’s not just what do you for yourself. It’s how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn’t big anything better than the golden rule. It’s in every major religion in one language or another.

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• In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

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• I’ve learned it’s always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

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• I like what I’m doing. Today at 88, I wouldn’t think of quitting because I can’t think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I’m doing matters.

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• I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

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• A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

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• I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That’s why people love me.

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Birth:	17th July, 1912
Death:	26th May, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Radio Personality, Television Presenter

About

Art Linkletter was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, on NBC radio and TV for 19 years. Linkletter was famous for interviewing children on House Party and Kids Say the Darndest Things, which led to a series of books quoting children. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1942. When he was five, his family moved to San Diego, California, where he graduated from San Diego High School at age 16. In 1934, he earned a bachelor's degree from San Diego State Teachers College, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He earned a degree in teaching, but worked as a radio announcer at KGB in San Diego. Radio paid better than teaching, and Linkletter directed radio programs for fairs and expositions in the mid-1930s. In the 1940s Linkletter lived in San Francisco and worked in radio.

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