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- This life gets bitterly cold. Sometimes you just need to cling to the person that you can claw your way out of the dark with.
- Chris Dingess, Being Human, Wouldn't It Be Nice (If We Were Human), 2011
- When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.
- 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
- 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
- Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.
- Eugene Mirman, LHS Commencement Speech, 2009
- It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same.
- Brian Buckner, True Blood, Bad Blood, 2010
- Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
- Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
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