Imelda Marcos Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Imelda Marcos Quotes and Sayings
- 1
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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- 2
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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- 3
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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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 hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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- 9
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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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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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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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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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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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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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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- 18
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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- 19
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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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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- 22
We practically own everything in the Philippines.
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- 23
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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- 24
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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