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  • Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

    "17 Funniest Lines from Monty Python Star Eric Idle’s Commencement Speech" By Gillian Frew, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2013.
  • Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

    Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.
  • George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.

  • You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

    "Denzel Washington to College Grads: 'Put God First'" by Michael W. Chapman, www.cnsnews.com. May 11, 2015.
  • Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

    Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.418, Hachette UK
  • There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

    "Ten Best Commencement Speeches: See A List, Take The Poll" by Katharine Zaleski, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.
  • And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

    J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK
  • The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. 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.

  • It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  • My daughter went to the school, and it's a very, very progressive and liberal school, and my commencement speech was telling the kids just to always be willing to quit, and that they need to quit a lot in their lives, and keep on quitting, because all the happiness I've ever got was when I turned my back on things that everybody else thought would make you happy. I can smell parents' stomach acid right now, but they know that whole "You gotta get a job and you gotta settle for what people perceive as success" thing is really absurd.

    Daughter   Kids   School  
    Source: film.avclub.com
  • One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

  • There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

    Commencement address in Harvard, news.harvard.edu. May 30, 2013.
  • We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.

    Commencement Speech, Wellesley College, www.wellesley.edu. 1969.
  • There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

    Commencement Address at Dartmouth College, 2011.
  • Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.

    Dream   Failing   Bigs  
    "Ohio Gov. John Kasich". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. May 24, 2015.
  • Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

    Love   Heart   People  
    Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011
  • My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.

    "‘Other People’s Rejection Letters’: 8 Of The Craziest Rejection Letters" by Bill Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.
  • It's just like when Trump made his speech, his commencement speech at Liberty University, I saw something that I've never seen. ABC News was there, and they're running around asking the parents of students at Liberty University what about Donald Trump they don't like. Are you upset that Trump is here? Do you ever remember any such reporting at an Barack Obama or Michelle Obama commencement? Of course not. And Trump was loved and adored at this thing, and he had some great things to say.

    Running   Parent   Upset  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

    "Jim Carrey Receives Honorary Diploma from Maharishi University of Management". Jim Carrey's commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.iowasource.com. May 24, 2014.
  • Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

  • I did work well with Hillary Clinton when she was my colleague in the Senate, and I certainly don't bear her any ill will. But when I listened carefully to her commencement speech, what I heard was a laundry list of very expensive new programs that our country simply cannot afford, and that would add to our already overwhelming $17 trillion debt. I'm also disturbed by the mismatch in her answers to the questions about her e-mail server and what the FBI Director Comey says that the FBI's investigation found.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

  • One of the panelists on CNN, after the Hillary Clinton commencement speech, literally started crying, "I can't believe, I can't believe the election actually happened and she lost." I don't need to see that. I don't need to see a bunch of whimpering leftists who themselves are incapable of grounding themselves in reality, whining and moaning.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

  • As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

  • You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  • President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,' while Romney was like, 'I can be whatever you want me to be.'

    President   Speech   Want  
  • Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

    Bill Nye (2015). “Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World”, p.370, St. Martin's Press
  • So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

    Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.
  • Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

    Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.
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