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People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.

Nancy Reagan

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Nancy Reagan
Age: 92 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 6
Died: 2016
Died: March 6
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Film Actor
Former First Lady Of The United States
Lawyer
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
Nancy Davis
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Cancer
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Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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My life didn't really begin until I met Ronnie.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.
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Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.
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Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to do everything in our power to find cures for these diseases - and soon. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.
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I'm doing what I want to do.
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I've always gone for the more understated look.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
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I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.
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The White House belongs to all Americans. It's supposed to be something we're proud of.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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A friend of mine said to me a year ago, You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library, She said, You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him. I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.
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