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Imelda Marcos
Celebrity
About the author
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Want
#Respect
#First
#Poor
#Dress
#Lady
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Kings
#Fish
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
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.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Bible
#Crime
#Hell
#Persecution
#Widows
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.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Ugliness
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Want
#People
#Beauty
We practically own everything in the Philippines.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Talk
#Trouble
#Husband
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Life
#Dreams
#Reality
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Life
#Family
#Comfort
#Dignity
#Country
#Justice
#Rights
#Human rights
It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Nothing
#Poor
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Love
#God
#Will
#Heaven
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Fight
#Self
#Survival
#Theft
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Problems
#First
#Ladies
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Want
#Will
#Poor
#Beauty
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.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Wealth
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#People
#First
#Accident
#Lady
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Listening
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Hate
#Ugliness
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Thinking
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Love
#Father
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity
#Right
#Nobility
If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
Imelda Marcos,
Celebrity