Imelda Marcos Quotes - Page 2

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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 house dresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.

  Imelda Marcos

  Stars, People, Wife

  The Los Angeles Times, 1980.

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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.

  Imelda Marcos

  Looks, Faces, Settling

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

  Imelda Marcos

  Know How, Havens, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

  Imelda Marcos

  Mean, Names, Truth Will Prevail

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

  Imelda Marcos

  Attitude, Great Things, Very Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They need a role model. They need a star!

  Imelda Marcos

  Stars, Role Models, Needs

  "Award winning documentary reveals Imelda Marcos". www.radioaustralia.net.au. March 20, 2012.

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• I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

  Imelda Marcos

  Robins, Done, Alive

  Fortune, 1979.

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• The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

  Imelda Marcos

  Beautiful, People, Philippines

  Imelda Marcos' remarks at a press conference in Bloomingdale's at the opening of the Philippine exhibit, "Katipunan Magazine", May 1982.

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• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  Imelda Marcos

  People, Giving, Justice

  "Queen of the islands". Interview with Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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• When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

  Imelda Marcos

  Kings, Politics, Holding On

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

  Imelda Marcos

  Mother, Sleep, Humanity

  "Marcos Seeks to Restore Philippine Dynasty" by Norimitsu Onishi, www.nytimes.com. May 7, 2010.

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• I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Tired, Listening, Complaining

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  Imelda Marcos

  Real, Real Beauty, Made

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

  Imelda Marcos

  Husband, Giving, Doe

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  Imelda Marcos

  Heaven, God Is Love

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We practically own everything in the Philippines.

  Imelda Marcos

  Philippines

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.

  Imelda Marcos

  Sorry, Godly, Saying Sorry

  "No Apology, It Was A Godly Act - Imelda". NewsFlash News Agency, October 14, 1998.

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• Why should people be afraid that we use a few small pellets of uranium at the nuclear power plant in Bataan? Don't they know that we're surrounded by uranium? We have the world's fourth largest deposits of uranium. Yes, we're all radioactive -- must be the reason why we have so many faith healers!

  Imelda Marcos

  People, Nuclear, Use

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• My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

  Imelda Marcos

  Dream, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.

  Imelda Marcos

  Queens, British, Knows

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Imelda Marcos

  Widows And Orphans, Hell, Crime

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

  Imelda Marcos

  Country, Regret, Father

  "Queen of the islands". Interview with Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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• More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.

  Imelda Marcos

  Your Side, Jail, Sides

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• My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.

  Imelda Marcos

  Growing Up, Grandchildren, People

  The Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 1998.

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• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Ugly, Miserable, Filipino

  "Homage to Imelda's Shoes". news.bbc.co.uk. February 16, 2001.

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