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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.
Imelda Marcos
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Imelda Marcos
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: July 2
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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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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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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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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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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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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 get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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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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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 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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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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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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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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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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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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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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