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" I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. "
Shirley Temple
FBI
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" I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and grandmother... and diplomatic services for the United States government. "
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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. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. "
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" 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. "
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" Good luck needs no explanation. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" I've always been bossy. "
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" I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail. "
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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. "
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" I did an imitation of him to make the crew laugh. To my shock, there was Cary Grant behind me. He got very angry. I was sent all the way from RKO to David Selznick's office and was told not to do it anymore. I thought to myself, 'I must have been pretty good to make him that angry.' "
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