I always thought that Shirley and Alan would get together.
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Shirley
//ˈʃɜː(ɹ)li//
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Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams sang "shlemiel, schlemazel, hasenpfeffer incorporated" in the theme song "Making our Dreams Come True" for the television show "Laverne and Shirley," a popular American sitcom in the 1970s.
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As the great Shirley Chisholm once said, “The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begin when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl.’” And that has consequences for all of us, whether we’re men or women, black, white, gay, straight, transgender or otherwise.
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My father's name was Walter Shirley, and he was a teacher in the Bolingbroke High School.
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