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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos
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Imelda Marcos
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: July 2
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City of Manila
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Perception is real, truth is not. I'm not fighting for money and possessions. I'm fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age -- the Age of Transparency -- the facts and the truth will out.
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Our opponent [Cory Aquino] does not put on any make up. She does not have her fingernails manicured. You know gays. They are for beauty. Filipinos who like beauty, love and God are for Marcos.
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Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
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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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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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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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Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive -- must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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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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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.
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President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.
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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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My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.
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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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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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