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" There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world. "
Shirley Temple
World
Us
Who
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" 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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" The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies. "
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" 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. "
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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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Over
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" I ran for Congress, just once. "
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Just
Congress
Once
" Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble. "
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Time
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" 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. "
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Stories
Newspaper
" 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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Past
Politics
Colors
" I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. "
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Seventeen
Work
Staff
" I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad. "
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Over
Salad
I Wish
" I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world. "
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Real
Real World
Pretend
" Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. "
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More
Real
" 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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Said
You
Thought
" 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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Three
Blessed
Government
" I've always been bossy. "
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Been
Always
Bossy
" When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since. "
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Oldest
Getting
Been
" 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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Know
Most
Work
" 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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Mother
Christmas
Believing
" 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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Me
Good
Thought
" 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. "
Shirley Temple
Know
Person
Child
" We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. "
Shirley Temple
Would
Which
Thought
" If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working. "
Shirley Temple
Again
Working
Over
" 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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Politics
Service
People
" 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 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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Depression
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" I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. "
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Always
Service
Listen
" I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. "
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FBI
Salesman
Pie
" 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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Know
Loved
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I Am
Friend
Hurt
" 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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Dog
Depression
Love