Imelda Marcos Quotes
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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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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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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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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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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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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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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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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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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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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 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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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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We practically own everything in the Philippines.
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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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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
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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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Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivete. …That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad I was not smart.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.