Most Inspiring Celebrity Graduation Speech?
SLIDESHOW: Most Inspiring Celeb Graduation Speech?
Aaron Sorkin
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Aaron Sorkin
Best quote: "Last year I celebrated my 11-year anniversary of not using coke. ... In that 11 years, I’ve written three television series, three movies, a Broadway play, won the Academy Award."
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Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane University, 2009
Best quote: "By the time I was your age, I really thought I knew who I was, but I had no idea. Like for example. ...I was dating men. So what I’m saying is, when you’re older, most of you will be gay."
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Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005
Best quote: "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking."
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Bono, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Best quote: "What are you willing to spend. ... your sweat equity in pursuing outside of the walls of the University of Pennsylvania? My point is that the world is more malleable than you think."
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J.K. Rowling, Harvard, 2008
Best quote: "I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."
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Conan O'Brien, Dartmouth College, 2011
Best quote: “I, a cable television talk show host, have been chosen to stand here and impart wisdom. I pray I never witness a more damning example of what is wrong with America today."
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Stephen Colbert, Knox College, 2006
Best quote: "If someone does offer you a job, say yes. You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing."
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Denzel Washington, University at Pennsylvania, 2011
Best quote: "Do you have the guts to fail? If you don't fail, you're not even trying."
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164 votes
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178 votes
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282 votes
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49 votes
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116 votes
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98 votes
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58 votes
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86 votes
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Oscar-winning ("The Social Network") and Emmy-winning ("The West Wing") writer Aaron Sorkin became the latest celeb to inspire a new generation on Sunday, when he made the commencement speech at Syracuse University. And we have to say, it was very moving:
"Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character," he said.
Sorkin also addressed his addiction to cocaine. "My big fear was that I wasn’t going to be able to write without it," he confessed. "Last year I celebrated my 11-year anniversary of not using coke. ... In that 11 years, I’ve written three television series, three movies, a Broadway play, won the Academy Award and taught my daughter all the lyrics to 'Pirates of Penzance.'"
From Sorkin to Ellen DeGeneres to Steve Jobs, click through our slideshow and let us know: Which celeb made the most inspiring graduation speech?
WTF did Denzel Washington ever do ?
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