Top 41 Linkletter Quotes
#2. 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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#4. I knew the answer, and
of course
so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
Elizabeth Peters
#5. Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
Barack Obama
#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.
Rafik Hariri
#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
Jack Schwartz
#14. 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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#15. Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.
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#16. People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.
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#17. 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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#18. People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.
Jimmy Connors
#19. 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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#20. My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.
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#21. 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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#22. He had one of those deep voices I loved, the kind of voice I imagined would sound commanding and hot as hell when he was bossing his woman around during sex. Jesus. Get a grip, woman.
Nina Levine
#23. 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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#24. I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.
Tom Lehman
#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.
Cynthia Weil
#29. Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.
Rob Brydon
#30. A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.
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#31. The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
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#32. If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.
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#33. I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
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#34. One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
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#35. I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.
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#36. There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
Ludwig Von Mises
#37. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want." - ABRAHAM L. FEINBERG
Laura Doyle
#38. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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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