Shirley Temple Quotes

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.

Shirley Temple

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 23, 1928 - February 10, 2014

Topics

WorkLoveMotherHappySayingName

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Robert Collier

RepetitionConvictionConstant

Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's why I don't think it will date.

Ronnie Corbett

ThinkComedyTongueWhyWillOff

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

Rufus Wainwright

MusicTimeMyselfBetterKnowTry

It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.

Mike Posner

LoveGreatPeopleThinkingGrow

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

Miuccia Prada

LightShoppingProblemsDoingYou

I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets.

Lou Barletta

FearCityDriveAfraidStreetsSaw

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.

Louis Tomlinson

RestaurantCinemaGoingIdeaLike

Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby.

Bobby Hull

ThinkPressureBackBoyKidPretty

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

Philip Levine

WorkMeDoingStopDetroitPoet

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Peter Mayle

WorkGreatSchoolThinkMissedOut

Printing money - is it really the answer? ... If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won't that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing - I like to take everything to the extreme.

Rick Santelli

MoneyWomanManChildLookCountry

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if they say they haven't. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind - the product wasn't distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Richard Branson

MindEnoughSayLyingWillThey Say

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