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Shirley Temple Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran for Congress, just once.
- Nov 07, 2020
We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
- Hour
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good luck needs no explanation.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been bossy.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.
- Advice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people consider me an old friend.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like real love. Nothing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shirley Temple doesn't hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She is thought of as a friend - which I am!
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and grandmother... and diplomatic services for the United States government.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.'
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain.
- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember telling President Carter on his first night, when I was escorting people around, that I was interested in continuing public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020