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I'm doing what I want to do.

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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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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I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
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Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.
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It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.
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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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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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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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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 is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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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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Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.
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My life didn't really begin until I met Ronnie.
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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 movies were custard compared to politics.
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The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.
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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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