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I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love. I am sure our poor will pick the latter. With the Marcos assets, we could regain this value of sharing love with one another.

Imelda Marcos

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Imelda Marcos
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: July 2
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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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What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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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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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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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 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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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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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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