The secret ingredient to a life well lived is moxie — a mixture of being bold, fearless, and a little outrageous.
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Tiffany Shlain
UC Berkeley Commencement 2010, 2010
Fight them back with facts. Because facts matter. There are standards of truth, and we should demand nothing less.
speech graduation courage
Lynn Sherr
Wellesley College Commencement 2010, 2010
A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.
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Sandra Soto
University of Arizona Commencement 2010, 2010
You can count on yourself. Your self is your best ally. You know who you are, even when sometimes it becomes a little blurry. Just go deeper.
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Patti Smith
Pratt Institute 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
You are about to experience the first taste of freedom in your life and that won't be freedom from your parents. You are about to be free from yourself, your old self, the self of your youth. You are, in many ways, about to be born.
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Porochista Khakpour
Desert Academy Commencement 2010, 2010
Be different, be smart, but most of all accept that heavy torch from me and my generation: be the future. Believe that within you is the ability to always make it a better place than this one.
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Porochista Khakpour
Desert Academy Commencement 2010, 2010
If no one would give me a chance as a reporter, I should take a chance. If no one would give me an opportunity, I would have to make my own opportunity.
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Anderson Cooper
Tulane University Commencement 2010, 2010
Everyone is born an original, but sadly, most die copies.
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Cory Booker
Pitzer College Commencement 2010, 2010
When you try to please everybody, you're going to lose your ass.
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Bobby Knight
Trine University Commencement 2010, 2010
Nations of technically trained people who don't know how to criticize authority, useful profit-makers with obtuse imaginations.
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Martha Nussbaum
Connecticut College Commencement 2009, 2009
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