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" What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. "

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" It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor. "

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" Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. "

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" Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness. "

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" It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do. "

" I loved school, was an exceptional student, and found a passion for math and science that led me to Vanderbilt University, where I discovered the world of electrical engineering. I did well in college, loved the work I was doing, and soon found myself climbing the corporate ladder after graduation. I was one of the lucky ones. "

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" Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. "

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" In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. "

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" After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression. "

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" I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree. "

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