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" Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank. "
Shirley Temple
Crushes
Nothing
Tank
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" I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. "
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" 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. "
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" I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. "
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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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Done
" We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. "
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" Shirley Temple doesn't hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She is thought of as a friend - which I am! "
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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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" 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. "
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" There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world. "
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Who
" When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since. "
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Getting
Been
" I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. "
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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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Eyes
Said
Me
" I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad. "
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Salad
I Wish
" 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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Jail
Song
Him
" 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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Myself
Depression
Dog
" 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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Even
Former
Ford
" 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. "
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Mother
Think
Sad
" 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. "
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Children
Loved
Me
" 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. "
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Girl
Picture
Marriage
" If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working. "
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Again
Working
Over
" 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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Career
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Two
" Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. "
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Adoration
" 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.' "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Nobody
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" The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies. "
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School
" Many people consider me an old friend. "
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Old
" There's nothing like real love. Nothing. "
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Nothing
Real