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" I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. "

Bruce Eric Kaplan

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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. "

" I started traveling, performing, doing photo shoots and working on new music. At the same time, I was juggling homework and trying not to miss out on too many experiences during my junior and senior years - like prom and graduation. "

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

" I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. "

" I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23. "

" Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree. "

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" After graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to do more theater, not realizing there is very little theater in L.A. It was a lucky mistake, though, because after just 2 1/2 months of waiting tables, my TV and film career really took off. "

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" Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking. "

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" Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. "

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" I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted. "

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" When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. "

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" I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.' "

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