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. Then by all means, you should follow that.
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Ellen DeGeneres
Tulane University Commencement 2009, 2009
You should also know there are a lot of really mean, stupid bosses out there. But there are also some really good ones that do good things.
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Mike Judge
UC San Diego Commencement 2009, 2009
The main difference for you, between life yesterday and life tomorrow, is you can go to the bathroom whenever you want. It's a pretty big responsibility, but you've earned it.
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Eugene Mirman
Lexington High School Commencement 2009, 2009
Don't forget to follow your dreams — unless your dreams are stupid — like eating all the cake in Arlington.
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Eugene Mirman
Lexington High School Commencement 2009, 2009
Things can kill you. So just keep that in mind, you fearless know-it-alls.
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Eugene Mirman
Lexington High School Commencement 2009, 2009
No question is too stupid. You're not as smart as you think you are. You never will be. There's always room to learn. Don't be scared to ask.
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Meredith Vieira
Tufts University Commencement 2008, 2008
College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or your job, or your career. Here is the best piece of advice I can give you: Every day, once a day, give yourself a present.
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Jon Stewart
College of William & Mary Commencement 2004, 2004
The best commencement speech I can give you is: We broke it. But here's the good news — you fix it, and it's going to be a heck of a lot of fun.
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Jon Stewart
College of William & Mary Commencement 2004, 2004
My life needed a challenge, so in 1973, at age 50, I determined to get a Ph.D. They don't call them doctors for nothing. Getting a Ph.D. is painful.
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Jean Andrews
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are. You're the only ones who are obsessed with the importance of your own life. To everyone else, it's just a blip on the radar screen.
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Jerry Zucker
University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2003, 2003
The positions I am about to describe are not only exalted and high paying; they also require little or no work, experience, training or knowledge. Thus they are exceptionally well suited to graduating seniors.
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Roger Rosenblatt
Brigham Young University Commencement 1998, 1998
Why write your own material when others have done it for you? Don't worry about being caught. If you have to apologize, just say, 'An error was made.' Nobody cares.
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Roger Rosenblatt
Brigham Young University Commencement 1998, 1998