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241 First Lady Quotes

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

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

Different Different Way I Think Linear
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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.

Always Anything Back Been
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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.

Am Aware Extent How
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
Lose Nothing Poor Rich
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

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

Dollars Down Dress First
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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.

Both First Ladies Problems
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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.

Am Call Corrupt Down
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We practically own everything in the Philippines.

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

Am Comfortable Fish Holding
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

After Election Go Lose
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
Accident Am By The People Elected
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

Beauty Because Extravagant Garbage
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

Got How How Much Know
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
Become Dreams Life My Life
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Born Had Human Human Right
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Dollars Get Here Listening
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Beautiful Beauty Look Poor
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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.

Basic Basic Human Rights Comfort Concerns
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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.

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

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

Beautiful Closets Found God
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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.

Earth Feel Hardly Humanity
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Always Beauty Extravagant God
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Always Canvas Did Every
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

Appreciated California Dear Even
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

About Attitude Everybody Great
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

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

Dictionary Extravagance Listed Mean
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I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

About Beg Could Enough
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

After Building Come Crisis
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Beauty Body Books Bringing
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The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

Beauty Deposit Money Only
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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.

About Am Damn Democracy
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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.

Believe Change Coming Country
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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.

British Elizabeth Even Just
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

Bachelor Been Born Every
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Any Community Democratic Entrance
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Afraid Become Forget Something
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The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Always Been Elected First
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Bachelor Born Ought Politician
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Able Art Beyond Could
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Close Fully Get Hell
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

Any Committee Determined Flame
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Apt Believe Children Live
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Clash Freedom Ideas Sound
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We are supposed to play politics with morality, integrity and capacity not violence…

Supposed Politics Morality Integrity
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Children are precious and they are our future. It is our duty and responsibility as a family and community to love, care for and protect them.

Children Future Responsibility Family
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As much as HIV is a major issue, most people living with HIV lead healthy lives when empowered with information on how to effectively manage the infection.

Much Major issue Living with Healthy
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