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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
Diplomat
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City of Manila
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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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What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
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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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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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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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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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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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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
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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 did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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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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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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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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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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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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