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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.
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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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 am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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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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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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What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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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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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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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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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 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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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 was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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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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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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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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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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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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