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- Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
- Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
- Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
- You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.
- Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
- Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
- Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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