In bringing the president to me, in having me speak to and question a shaper of history and experience the value he saw in my view, Harvard would make me feel I too could be him. I too had the power to shape history and not just be passively shaped by it.
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Sarah Abushaar
Harvard University Commencement 2014, 2014
No dream is too big, no vision is too bold; as long as we stay hungry for education and let that hunger be our North Star, there is nothing, graduates, nothing that we cannot achieve.
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Michelle Obama
Dillard University Commencement 2014, 2014
It's about having the courage to give in to passion for an idea that makes your heart race. And if it doesn't scare you, you're probably not dreaming big enough.
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Tory Burch
Babson College Commencement 2014, 2014
What would you do if you weren't afraid? Take a moment and ask yourself that question. And then go do it.
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Sheryl Sandberg
City Colleges of Chicago Commencement 2014, 2014
She was not a white man. So Clara rewrote the law that governed the practice of law in California, replacing 'white man' with 'any citizen or person resident of this state.'
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Janet Napolitano
UC Hastings College of the Law Commencement 2014, 2014
Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.
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Jim Carrey
Maharishi University of Management Commencement 2014, 2014
I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.
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Jim Carrey
Maharishi University of Management Commencement 2014, 2014
Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.
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Shonda Rhimes
Dartmouth College Commencement 2014, 2014
One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, right here, right now, is to decide, without apology, to commit to the journey, and not to the outcome.
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Joyce DiDonato
The Juilliard School Commencement 2014, 2014
The world needs you. Now, the world may not exactly realize it, but wow, does it need you. It is yearning, starving, dying for you and your healing offer of service through your Art.
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Joyce DiDonato
The Juilliard School Commencement 2014, 2014
We're taught when we're young that the opposite of love is hate. But it's not. Hate is a byproduct. The opposite of love is fear. Fear is what blinds us. Fear is corrosive. Fear makes us hold back.
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John Legend
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2014, 2014
The only way you'll reach any height in life and in love is by taking the chance that you might fall. You have to give your all.
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John Legend
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2014, 2014