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- One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
- 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
- You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.
- Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.
- Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
- 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
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