Nancy Reagan Quotes

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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.

  Nancy Reagan

  Life, Appreciation, Time

  "Diane Sawyer Talks With Nancy Reagan". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. June 28.

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• To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

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  Inspirational, Life, God

  "'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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• I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

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  Inspirational, Giving, Optimism

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• There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

  Nancy Reagan

  Promise, World, Wonderful

  "'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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• You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

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  Feet, Different, Each Day

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 5, 2001.

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• Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

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  Dream, Children, Heart

  Nancy Reagan's Speech On Halting Drug Abuse, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1986.

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• Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

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  Losing, Hopeless, First Lady

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• I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

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  Death, Thinking, People

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• People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes.

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  Corn Flakes, People, Water

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• With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

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  Alzheimer's, Bed, Patient

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• Every woman is entitled to an opinion and the right to express that opinion-especially to the man she's married to.

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  Men, Opinion, Married

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• Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

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  Feminism, Want, Ability

  "Nancy Reagan's Inspiring Legacy for Women" by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 11, 2016.

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• As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

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  Life Is Precious, Said, Stem Cell Research

  "Nancy Reagan, Former First Lady, Dies at 94" by Julie Percha, abcnews.go.com. March 6, 2016.

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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.

  Nancy Reagan

  Art, Writing, Phones

  Nancy Reagan (2001). “I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan”, p.1, Random House

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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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  Beautiful, Men, Common

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• Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

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  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 05, 2001.

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• I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

  Nancy Reagan

  Red

  "Nancy Reagan's fashion influence: A look at her 'simple and elegant' style" by Elizabeth Murray, www.today.com. March 06, 2016.

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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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  Jobs, Vacation, President

  "The Most Ridiculous Myths About Barack Obama" by Paul Brandus, www.businessinsider.com. November 05, 2012.

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• I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

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  Political, Drug, Tone

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• I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

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  Friendship, Perspective, Comfort

  "Winning with People: Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time". Book by John C. Maxwell, 2005.

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• My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'

  Nancy Reagan

  Jobs

  "Ronald Reagan Remembered". Interview with Mike Wallace, www.cbsnews.com. June 06, 2004.

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• Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

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  Cells, Together We Can, Giving

  "Frist Breaks from Bush on Stem Cell Research; Terror Suspects in Custody in London and Rome; Energy Bill Extends Daylight Savings Time". “Live From...”, www.cnn.com. July 29, 2005.

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• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

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  Wise, Men, Doors

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• I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

  Nancy Reagan

  Frills

  "A Look Back at Nancy Reagan's Influential First Lady Style" by Sophia Chabbott, www.glamour.com. March 6, 2016.

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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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  Years, Library, Lucky

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