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Art Linkletter Biography

Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletter (born Arthur Gordon Kelly, or Gordon Arthur Kelley (sources differ), July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010) 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. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1942.

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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.

Golden, Language, People, Philosophy, Religion

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

Hobos, Poor, Grew Up, Grew, Freights

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

Childhood, Four, Infancy Is, Life, Men, Stages

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.

Chemicals, Discotheques, Light, Messages, Secret, Song

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

Aging, Grow, Grows, Keep, Needs

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

College, Everything, Small, Wonderful, Wonderful Things

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.

Positive, Attitude, Optimistic, Making, Life, Tremendous

The only meaningful contact is one that involves a genuine, giving personal interaction. You may want another person to help you in business, but you must also be willing to help him and to spend time getting to know his interests and needs. . . It has to be real and heartfelt, or it's best not to try to establish the relationship at all.

Contact, Giving, Involves, Meaningful, Real, Relationship

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.

Adults, Against, Children, Defensive, Knowing

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

Depression, Depth, Depths, Jobs, Options, Stock

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

Good, Kept, Music, Reason, Sing, Towns

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

Dog, Love, Mom, Motherhood, People

Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

Accomplishment, Fun, Interested, Life, Seeing

Kids do say the darndest things

Kids, Darndest, Say, Things

I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day.

Eat, Exercise, Think, Think Positively, Thinking

Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.

Committees, Homogenize, Thinking, Together

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

Hundred, I'Ve Learned, Learning, Nothing, Percent, Success

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

Like, Matter, Think, Thinking, Today

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.

Children, Different, Fifth, Funny, Parenting, Yard

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.

Children, Two, People, Folks, Saying, Thing

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