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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

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Imelda Marcos
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: July 2
Diplomat
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City of Manila
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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