42 Imelda Marcos Quotes - Inspirational Quotes at BrainyQuote

Celebrity Born: July 2, 1929

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Funny Shoes Three Pairs Sixty

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Fight Survival Self Anything

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

Love God Go Will

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

Hate You Know Allergic

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Thinking Way Think Different

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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.

Love Me You Father

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.

Me You I Am Rich

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

You Lose Rich Poor

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

Me Trouble Like Talk

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

You Dress Respect Look

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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.

You Problems First Slave

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.

God Me Face Look

We practically own everything in the Philippines.

Everything Own Philippines

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

Politics Me Fish I Am

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

Go Lose Shopping Election Win

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

People I Am Lady First

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Beauty Me People Who

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

You Know How Got

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

Life Dreams My Life Reality

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Born Right Human Nobility

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

Tired Listening Petty Here

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Beauty Beautiful Look Will

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Life Family Justice Matter

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.

Bible Hell Place Crime

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

Beauty Ugly Bad Things

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

Beautiful God Shoes Thank God

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