Nancy Reagan Quotes
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
Quotes to Explore
-
Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
-
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
-
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
-
I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
-
I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
-
I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
-
I've always watched the political shows.
-
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
-
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
-
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
-
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
-
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
-
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
-
I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
-
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
-
I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
-
Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
-
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
-
The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
-
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
-
Property isn't theft: it's nothing.
-
Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
-
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
