Top 38 Art Linkletter Sayings
#1. People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.
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#2. Is this how you got around before?" Vida wondered aloud. "It is a miracle you dumbasses survived.
Alexandra Bracken
#3. Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.
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#5. Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. ... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix.
J.P. Donleavy
#9. People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.
The black and the black and the black.
John Fowles
#10. Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.
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#11. The ever-new passions which consumed her gave to her life the appearance of those clouds which float in the heavens, reflecting sometimes azure, sometimes fire, sometimes the opaque blackness of the tempest, and which leave no traces upon the earth behind them but devastation and death.
Alexandre Dumas
#12. 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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#13. I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.
Jay Duplass
#14. 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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#15. Bravery is measured by how hard you try, not by whether you actually succeed.
Nancy Straight
#16. Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
Bertrand Russell
#17. I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.
Christiane Amanpour
#18. My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.
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#19. The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.
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#20. I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.
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#21. Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
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#23. And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.
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#24. My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.
Ken Venturi
#25. Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.
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#26. A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.
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#27. The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
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#28. I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
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#29. One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
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#30. If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.
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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.
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#34. Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.
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#35. Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.
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#36. Do a little more than you're paid to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family & friends.
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#37. I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.
Ellen Stofan
#38. 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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