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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.
Imelda Marcos
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Imelda Marcos
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: July 2
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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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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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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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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I am beyond logic and rationality.
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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 did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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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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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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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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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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What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
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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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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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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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They need a role model. They need a star!
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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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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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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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Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.
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