Shirley Temple Quotes - Page 2

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• Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.

  Shirley Temple

  Government, Risk, Today

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• [Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.

  Shirley Temple

  Running, Blue, Campaigns

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• Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

  Shirley Temple

  Mean, Trouble, Wasted Time

  "Shirley Temple Black, Hollywood's Biggest Little Star, Dies at 85" by Aljean Harmetz, www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2014.

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• I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.

  Shirley Temple

  Blessed, Thinking, Interesting

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• One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer not an exhibitor'.

  Shirley Temple

  Office, Said, Producers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Shirley Temple

  Inspirational, Believe, Past

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• Many people consider me an old friend.

  Shirley Temple

  People, Old Friends

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• I've always been bossy.

  Shirley Temple

  Bossy

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• By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.

  Shirley Temple

  Mark

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• My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.

  Shirley Temple

  Mother, Cheer, Children

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• 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.

  Shirley Temple

  Educational, Done, World

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• I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.

  Shirley Temple

  Stars, Hands, Class

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• I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

  Shirley Temple

  Hours, Responsible, Staff

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• Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.

  Shirley Temple

  People, Tin, Rudolph

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• Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

  Shirley Temple

  Real, Believe, Long Ago

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• 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.

  Shirley Temple

  Children, Drs, Former

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• 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.

  Shirley Temple

  Attention, Lines, Pay

  "REVIEW/ART; What Makes Shirley Run, in Her Own Words" by Aljean Harmetz, www.nytimes.com. October 25, 1988.

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• I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

  Shirley Temple

  Get Away, Close Family

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• Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

  Shirley Temple

  Ghana, People, Actresses

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• 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.

  Shirley Temple

  Thinking, People, Shy

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• We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.

  Shirley Temple

  Mother, Years, Wife

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• Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

  Shirley Temple

  Movie, Hollywood, Delay

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• 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.

  Shirley Temple

  Mother, Thinking, Mind

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• Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.

  Shirley Temple

  Ghana, Drs, Kissinger

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• Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either.

  Shirley Temple

  Believe, Men, Years

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