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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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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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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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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What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
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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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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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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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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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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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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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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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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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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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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 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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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 was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
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