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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."
Ugliness

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

"The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave."
First
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"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
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"Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress."
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"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man."
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"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."
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"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
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"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
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"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."
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"I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning."
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"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"
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