Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

I’ve always been bossy.

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.

Good luck needs no explanation.

Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.

I work a seventeen hour day, and I’m personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

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.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn’t know me as an actress. They’d know me for my work at the U.N.

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.

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.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

I ran for Congress, just once.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.

Many people consider me an old friend.

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

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.

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.

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.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I’ve been getting younger ever since.

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.

There’s nothing like real love. Nothing.

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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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