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What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
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 get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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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 will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
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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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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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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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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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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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