Imelda Marcos Quotes
I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing housedresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. But you want someone who'll help you catch the bus.
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
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All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.
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I believe the United States is very sick financially and might not survive another four years of Obama-style leadership.
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I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing housedresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.
