I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.


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SHIRLEY MANSON
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
SHIRLEY KNIGHT
I'd like to run away from you, but if you didn't come and find me, I would die...
SHIRLEY BASSEY
I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.
SHIRLEY BASSEY
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.
SHIRLEY BASSEY
I love him because he is Welsh and stylish...and because he gave me these shoes.
SHIRLEY BASSEY
Who would have thought a little girl from Tiger Bay would one day become a Dame?
SHIRLEY BASSEY
We are exploring the sale of both assets. Whether [the Braves and Turner South] were going to be sol...
SHIRLEY POWELL
Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at th...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Conran's rule of housework: it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour
SHIRLEY CONRAN
I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.
SHIRLEY JONES
I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, ...
SHIRLEY JONES
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All tha...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive re...
JOHN SHIRLEY
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...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only t...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have pe...
SHIRLEY MANSON
For me, the safest place is out on a limb
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Good luck needs no explanation.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anyw...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Among Republicans, there is universal outrage that Gore and the Democrats won't accept the results o...
CRAIG SHIRLEY
Right now you could flip a 12-sided coin and come up with the nominee.
CRAIG SHIRLEY
Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.
WILLIAM SHIRLEY
I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
SHIRLEY MANSON
When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, y...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
[The lunch also brought the elusive Allen Franklin, retired Southern Co. CEO, back to the city from ...
SHIRLEY FRANKLIN
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. ...
CRAIG SHIRLEY
We-Lyn Shaw, Norgie Hester and myself-went to see the inauguration the year George Bush was sworn in...
SHIRLEY LEINWAND
"I call attention to the dark side maybe a little bit for mutual catharsis but also to try to paint ...
JOHN SHIRLEY
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I ...
JOHN SHIRLEY
I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
JOHN SHIRLEY
Bob [Sachs] is not the only client who wants a more finished look. People from out of state still se...
JOHN SHIRLEY
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not rea...
JOHN SHIRLEY
Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.
JOHN SHIRLEY
I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international r...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress ...
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDDLER
Albertans are reaping the rewards of the decisions that they stood behind a dozen years ago.
SHIRLEY MCCLELLAN
I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
Life's too short to stuff a mushroom.
SHIRLEY CONRAN
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM