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- 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 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
- You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.
- 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
- 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
- It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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