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" Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. "

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" College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. "

" 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.' "

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

" After graduation from high school, I attended the university entrance examination, and fortunately, I was accepted by the Department of Pharmacy and became a student at the Medical School of Peking University. "

" Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why. "

Alexandra Robbins

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

" My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak. "

" Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. "

" If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. "

" I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings. "

Katherine Schwarzenegger

" I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. "

Frederick Reines

" One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them. "

" Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations. "

" Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. "

" After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers. "

" If you are not leaning, no one will ever let you down. "

" I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers. "

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

Bruce Eric Kaplan

" At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me, shelter me, or do things for me, he taught me to 'Make the Case' for everything in life - from my first job to a graduation trip I wanted. "

Kimberly Guilfoyle

" You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing. "

Gil Scott-Heron

" I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well. "

" The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it. "

" When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school. "

" I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. "

" Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force. "

Dennis L. McKiernan

" When you blame others, you give up your power to change. "

" I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. "

" I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer. "

" In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls. "

" I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift. "

" I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. "

Carol P. Christ