Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple Blackwas an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and public servant, most famous as Hollywood's number one box-office star from 1935 to 1938. As an adult, she entered politics and became a diplomat, as a United States Ambassador to Ghana and later to Czechoslovakia, and as Chief of Protocol of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth23 April 1928
CountryUnited States of America
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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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Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.
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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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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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Many people consider me an old friend.
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Don't forget to tell your favorite people that you love them.
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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 stopped believing in santa clause when at age six my mother took me to a department store to see him and he asked me for my autograph.
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Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.
We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.
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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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I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
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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.
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By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.