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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

Imelda Marcos

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Imelda Marcos
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: July 2
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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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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 did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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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 have no weakness for shoes. I wear very simple shoes which are pump shoes. It is not one of my weaknesses.
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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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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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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 always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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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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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
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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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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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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 am beyond logic and rationality.
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I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
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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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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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