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Shirley Temple
8 quotes
“I think we all learn from the past. I just feel we shouldn't live there. We shouldn't live in the past. I live for today, and to me, the most important moment is now.”
Shirley Temple (1928–2014) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: "Madam Ambassador - Sixty Minutes" CBS, 1975.
“Robinson walked a step ahead of us, but when he noticed me hurrying to catch up, he shortened his stride to accommodate mine. I kept reaching up for his hand, but he hadn't looked down and seemed unaware. Fannie called his attention to what I was doing, so he stopped short, bent low over me, his eyes wide and rows of brilliant teeth showing in a wide smile. When he took my hand in his, it felt large and cool.”
Shirley Temple (1928–2014) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shirley Temple Black, Child Star: An Autobiography (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988), pp. 90-91.
“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.”
Shirley Temple (1928–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.”
Shirley Temple (1928–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have no trouble being taken seriously as a woman and a diplomat here. My only problems have been with Americans who, in the beginning, refused to believe I had grown up since my movies.”
Shirley Temple (1928–2014) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Johnson, Eric M. "Shirley Temple Black, child star who became diplomat, dies at 85" Reuters, February 2014.
“Politicians are actors too, don't you think?”
Shirley Temple (1928–2014) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: "Hollywood star Shirley Temple dies" BBC News, 11 February 2014.
“Macho attitudes usually fall victim to hard work, timely humor, and an absence of resentment.”
Shirley Temple (1928–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Kalb, Claudia. "Shirley Temple Black’s Remarkable Second Act as a Diplomat." Smithsonian Magazine, June 2022.
“Some of you may recollect a little girl with clean and curled hair, starched skirts, ruffles, and bows. That perception was wrong. The reality was a kid in blue jeans and sentimental sneakers, dirty hands, dirty face, usually climbing a tree. .. I never even aspired to be an actress. Even when I was very young, I had three aspirations: to be a surgeon, or an FBI agent, or a pie salesman. .. President Roosevelt patted and squeezed me in 1938. Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon shook my hand, but then I was older. Ford kissed me. Jimmy Carter kissed me in the White House, which means I was even older. And now I am simply female, black, and unemployed.”
Shirley Temple (1928–2014) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Shirley Temple Black, Movie Star, U.S. Ambassador - Landon Lecture" Kansas State University, April 10, 1979.