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I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.

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Madeleine Albright
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Politician
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Marie Jana Körbelová
Marie Jana Korbelová
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright
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I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.
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Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally I believe you earn them.
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I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
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There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].
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I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
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I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.
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We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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