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" When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. "

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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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" I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. "

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" Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and I felt left behind. It took a bit of soul searching, but in the end, I finally had the guts to pursue acting. "

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" Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. "

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" A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. "

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" I have a good cry once in a while; it's such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy - watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage. "

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" 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. "

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" At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child. "

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" My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini. "

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