Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
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Stephen Colbert
Northwestern University Commencement, 2011, 2011
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
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Conan O'Brien
Dartmouth College Commencement 2011, 2011
Life is fluid. Sometimes when things don't work out, it's the greatest gift of all.
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Chris Waddell
Middlebury College Commencement 2011, 2011
In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.
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Arianna Huffington
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2011, 2011
It's okay to fail, and fail big. Failing is the thing that builds character. Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
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Tiffany Shlain
UC Berkeley Commencement 2010, 2010
We dream, we cope, and we endure. And we keep on learning.
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Lynn Sherr
Wellesley College Commencement 2010, 2010
If you choose to broaden your circle to include people who've had different backgrounds and life experiences, you'll learn what it's like to walk in someone else's shoes, and in the process, you'll help make this democracy work.
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Barack Obama
University of Michigan Commencement 2010, 2010
Let your joy be in your journey — not in some distant goal.
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Tim Cook
Auburn University Commencement 2010, 2010
Adversity is an opportunity. Adversity will make you stronger. Adversity will mold you into the person that you're meant to be.
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Drew Brees
Loyola University New Orleans Commencement 2010, 2010
This education is a gift that you will be unwrapping for the rest of your life.
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Julianna Margulies
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2010, 2010
I realized my mission in life was to learn more, not earn more.
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Julianna Margulies
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2010, 2010
Education is about absorbing what others have learned and created and believe, but it is also about our responses to those concepts and those convictions.
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Julia Keller
Dominican University Commencement 2010, 2010